The requirements for disk space and ram depend non the windows version. XP doesn’t need much, you could probably do with even 256MB and a couple gigs of disk space, but I’d recommend at least 512 or a gig of ram. Newer windows need more, for vista and seven you need a gig of ram and 20 gigs of disk space just for the OS. As far as resource usage, of course it has to come from somewhere, so they won’t be available on the mac. The good thing though is that the settings you choose for the VM aren’t immediately allocated. So, if your VM has 2 gigs of ram, but the VM is only using half of it, then vmware won’t use those 2 gigs as long as it’s not needed. The same holds for the CPU, where you can also specify how many cores a VM can use. But again it won’t immediately use all of it. For disk space, you can choose if you want it to already allocate the space (EG, a 20 gig virtual disk would already be 20 gigs), or not (so then that file wouldn’t take up the space if it’s not being used).
For games, you can play audio games and anything light. But if you want to play main stream games that use a lot of video card resources, you’ll be better off setting up a bootcamp partition, so the game can use all the resources of your mac. On 30 Dec 2013, at 10:24 am, Andrew Head <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > Just got a question about windows on the mac in virtual machine. Can someone > please explain how this works exactly? I know you can assign a certain disc > space, ram, etc to use windows. How does this work? what is the least amount > of hard drive space needed to run windows and what’s the least amount of ram > needed? Because this hard drive space and ram is being used for windows, does > this effect things on the mac side, do you now have less hard drive space and > ram on the mac side of things because part of the computer is now being used > for windows? > And what if you were using windows for something requiring a lot of > processing power, such as game play? if you chose the least amount of ram and > hard drive space, does this then effect how well programs will run under > windows and how much storage space you have under windows? > I hope this email makes sense, and thanks in advance for answering my > questions. > Hope everyone has a good day and a safe, blessed and happy new year. > Andrew > Sent from my 11 inch macbook air > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
