[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Add memory vmware image

[Dan Wells]

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" <capecodcentralrailroad at gmail.com> 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 <denials at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ryan:
>
> On 16/04/2008, Ryan Laverdiere <ryan484lav at gmail.com> 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
>