[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Add memory vmware image

[Dan Wells]

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" <capecodcentralrailroad at gmail.com> 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 <dbw2 at calvin.edu> 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" <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
> >
>
>