VM ware size

[PreetinderBajwa]

Hi,

I installed Fusion 3 and 32bit Win 7. I allocated 32GB to it. Now when I check inside I see 21GB free (I have installed MS office 2010 and Smartdraw). I have access to VM ware setting where I can reduce the size of the Fusion 3 from 32 GB to a lesser number and I was thinking maybe 22GB, thus reclaiming 10GB for Mac.

Do you think making such a change on the fly will make something go wrong on the Mac side or inside the VM.....

BTW, I have the fully loaded MBA 11.6".

Thanks in Advance.

Preetinder

 

[tigres]

Hi,

I installed Fusion 3 and 32bit Win 7. I allocated 32GB to it. Now when I check inside I see 21GB free (I have installed MS office 2010 and Smartdraw). I have access to VM ware setting where I can reduce the size of the Fusion 3 from 32 GB to a lesser number and I was thinking maybe 22GB, thus reclaiming 10GB for Mac.

Do you think making such a change on the fly will make something go wrong on the Mac side or inside the VM.....

BTW, I have the fully loaded MBA 11.6".

Thanks in Advance.

Preetinder

You can reduce your drive space for VM under settings- After the VM machine is shut down.

Does not affect any performance at all. I only give mine 18GB, but I am running XP not 7.

 

[peterb69]

Does Win XP work on the Air? I thought there were no drivers for the hardware in XP.

 

[KPOM]

Does Win XP work on the Air? I thought there were no drivers for the hardware in XP.

There are no Boot Camp drivers for XP for the new Airs, but you can install XP as a virtual machine in Fusion or Parallels Desktop.

 

[tigres]

Does Win XP work on the Air? I thought there were no drivers for the hardware in XP.

Your running Fusion, as am I. So yes, VMware has supported XP since at least 08', perhaps before then.

Runs great btw, I now use Unity mode exclusively.

 

[PreetinderBajwa]

Didn't really work

Hi everyone,

I tried the VMware resizing from 32 to 22 GB, however it wouldn't let me reduce the size - the pop up says the size should be between 32GB and 2TB, please enter a valid size.

I guess once you choose the size you kind of live with it ! Yes i only had the Fusion 3 switeched on, and the windows OS was shut down.

Any experiences, tricks ?

Thanks

Preetinder