I didn't see a reply to your question about the disk space usage.
Generally when you set up the VM you can allocate all you want but it
will only use the amount needed to store whatever is on the windows
virtual disk. The default is to allocate 2GB at a time as needed but you
can configure it to pre-allocate the entire drive. So if your windows
install and apps takes about 10GB of your virtual 250GB drive you should
only lose about 10GB of space from your mac side. Works kind of nice
that way.
CB
On 6/3/12 3:51 PM, Allison Mervis wrote:
Hi everyone.
I have a copy of Windows 7 floating around here, and I was thinking about
playing with VMWare fusion. I have a few questions before I get started though.
I understand that when you're setting up the virtual machine, you allocate a
certain portion of your system resources in order to run it. Let's say, for
example that I allocate four of my eight gigs of ram and 250 of my 750 gigs of
hard drive space for the virtual machine. When I shut down the virtual machine,
will those resources be returned to my mac? That is to say, will I once again
have all 8 gigs of ram and 750 gigs of hard drive space available for use on my
mac? I apologize if this sounds basic. Thanks.
Allison
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