On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:00 AM, John Toliver <[email protected]>wrote:
> OK so I had an epiphany to use google and found this which states I can > happily use my 32bit home premium as it will see up to 4GB in 32bit rather > than cough up $100+ for 64 bit (woohoo!) > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_7 > That table may be a bit misleading. I don't think it necessarily means that the 32-bit version of Windows 7 will be able to use 4GB on a ThinkPad. I would test that specifically before assuming that it works. JT - So is the caveat to the above link that while 32bit WINDOWS can see and > play with up to 4GB most applications, unless written 64bit aware, won't be > able to address and use memory above the 2GB limit? Meaning I'm stuck if I > wanted to run Ubuntu in a VM rather than dual booting it because programs > like VMware and Virtualbox fall into the "can't see above 2GB" category? > Or > am I looking at this wrong in the sense that applications talk to memory > through windows which manages this and therefore if windows can see it then > so can anything else running on the system? > There isn't a magic 2GB line in the memory hardware, but if you only have 3GB available on a machine, you wouldn't want to give more than 2GB to a VM anyway. That would leave less than 1GB for the host OS. -Mike _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
