How much Ram should I give to VMWare?

[callummc]

Hey guys

I just installed VMWare Fusion 2.0 off my bootcamp partition. My specs are:
24" imac 2.4ghz
1tb HDD (32gb bootcamp partition)
4gb ram

I'm going to mainly be using microsoft office, firefox, maybe a bit of photoshop in vmware, I was wondering, how much RAM should I allocate to it? and also, should I give it 1 or 2 virtual processors?

 

[MacDawg]

I gave mine half

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[nick9191]

I'd give it 1-1.5gb for XP, 2gb for Vista.

 

[fpbecker]

Which Windows version are you planning to use?

Windows XP will work with 512 MB or 1GB of RAM and one virtual CPU, whereas Windows Vista will need at least 1 GB - if not 2 GB of RAM to work at a halfway satisfactory speed.

 

[callummc]

Ah yeah, sorry. I'm using XP Home SP2.

 

[dazed]

I give mine 1.5GB. seems to work fine. Im using XP Professional

 

[auhlixer]

you are running windows for programs that have versions for OSX ?

 

[callummc]

Well yeah, I have the discs for the windows versions as I used to have a windows pc, I'm not paying again for mac versions.

 

[deriko100]

2 gigs of ram or just boot into boot camp much better way, reason why apple chose to restart into bootcamp is because they wanted to give you the best experience without any bad lag so the windows side could have all the 4 gigs, full hard drive and cpu.

 

[deriko100]

Well yeah, I have the discs for the windows versions as I used to have a windows pc, I'm not paying again for mac versions.

Dude dont be cheap give bootcamp 100 gigs before you do anything that happened to me gave xp little space filled it up had to reinstall but you have 1tb i had 250 gigs so.

 

[WinMac2]

Hello,

I think that between 2 and 4 gb of RAM always it's OK.

I saw Windows and Google yogether in:

http://microgooglesoft.com/

hehe...

 

[JNB]

Running Win2K3 Server, an enterprise app and Oracle 11, it ran just peachy with 512K (default allocation), but I give it 1GB. No noticeable improvement.

WinXPSP2, 512K is a bit choppy, but 1GB is all it needs, even when running Oracle 9 and MSSQL db's side by side.

 

[juanster]

so after i ve set up windows and all i wont be able to give it more or less hd? or more or less ram?