Hello Ryan, The .vmx edit should work for Player or Server. You could also now follow Dan Scott' Server instructions quoted at the bottom of this message.
DW >>> "Ryan Laverdiere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/17/2008 5:31 PM >>> actually I am going to switch to vmware server so if you could give the instruction for that it would be a big help. Im going to have vmware server running on windows vista. On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Dan Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Ryan, > > This is what I would try. First, make sure your VM is shut down and not > "suspended". Then, in your VM's directory you should find a .vmx file. > Open the file in a text editor and find the line which starts with > "memsize", then change it to read (in the case of one gigabyte): > > memsize = "1024" > > Save the file, close it, then restart your VM. > > Good luck, > DW > > >>> "Ryan Laverdiere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/17/2008 7:18 AM > >>> > im using vmware player and my system has 2g so I thought that 1g would be > good. > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Dan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Ryan: > > > > On 16/04/2008, Ryan Laverdiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all! I have been using the Debian vmware image for demo testing for > a > > > while and my computer have 1g of memory available for use so I'm > trying > > to > > > find out how I can have the vmware image use the extra 1g. > > > > What VMWare product are you using? Using VMWare Server, you should be > > able to right-click on the vmware image in the VMWare Console (before > > you've actually started the image) and modify hardware settings - > > including allocating more RAM. When you start up the image, those > > settings should then take effect. > > > > Note that you will want meed to retain some memory for your host > > system - so if your host system has 1 GB of RAM total, you may only be > > able to allocate 786 MB of RAM to your Debian guest image. > > > > -- > > Dan Scott > > Laurentian University > > > >
