Hello Brian, 32-bit is really locked to 3GB of RAM, it's just Windows is reporting the 3.6GB of RAM. If you want to do more RAM I suggest going 64-bit OS. I have Windows 7 64-bit running with 8GB of RAM on a machine here at work and it is running nicely. Using Windows XP virtual Machine to run Company Database in the VM Window. I also play World of Warcraft on it too during lunch (using over 1GB of RAM for some reason) and still have Outlook, Firefox, iTunes and OneNote opened.
Basically upgrade to a 64-bit OS ;) Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:29 AM > To: hwg > Subject: [H] More than 4GB of ram and VM question > > I'm currently running the beta on Windows 7 32-bit and using 2 sticks > of 2GB > RAM. I have a recent need to occasionally run a VM with another OS in > it. > I would like to assign that OS 2 GB of RAM, but as I only have 3.6 GB > available and need to run some rather memory intensive apps in the > native > Windows OS at the same time, I can't. > > I'm looking at adding another 4 GB of RAM. I realize that a 32-bit OS > can't > address more than 4 GB, but my question is whether I can assign the VM > to > the other 4 GB? Or is that not going to work because it's running > inside > the host OS which has the limitation? > > And yes, I will probably make the move to 64-bit when Windows 7 > actually > comes out. > > --------------------------- > Brian Weeden > Technical Advisor > Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> > Montreal Office > +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada > +1 (202) 683-8534 US
