strategy of memory - swap on swap reviews vs host

I read all of the documentation that I can't, but have not been able to find an answer.

Like most users of vmware, the memory is my bottleneck. I'll have to run images of comments where the apps on the image exceeds the memory available for this image (so it'll be swapping).  I would like to know, is - better for performance keep the low guest machine memory and let the computer invited to take care of swapping, or should I give the guest much computer memory and let the computer host Exchange?

The host is Windows 7 (3.24 GB usable) is Windows Server 2008, both 64-bit.  Ideally, the machine Win2k8 will have 5 GB allocated for it.  My motherboard limited 4 GB installed RAM so adding physical ram is not an option.

Tim

(MB) physical

Yes, and that's EXACTLY what I'm trying to illustrate.  Physical systems need a LOT more load to run.  Drivers of the graphics card, hard drives, forthcoming, serial / usb ports.

A virtual machine is JUST CPU, memory and video.  OEM drivers are installed on both physical systems, which inflate the RAM of the OS. You can virtually eliminate 50% of indigestion.  When you install the video drivers in physics you need the driver AND software.  A virtual machine does not need software and the driver is just a basic driver.  Your sound card and all these extras are nice, like the system of monitoring (3rd third party software), keyboard presses, WiFi, power management system... ALL these need to RAM, and they add up.

A virtual machine needs ANY of these options, so it's MUCH cleaner.  So what I'm telling you ignore the physical specifications.  Those who are die anyway not custom, the standard offering from any provider is 2.00 Ghz CPU, 160 GB hard drive and 4 GB of RAM... VM don't have to be the same thing at work the same, because this overload has disappeared.

Why a virtual machine would require less memory than the equivalent physical machine?

VM do not need additional drivers, and there are not as many devices.

Microsoft said that 512 MB is the minimum for Windows Server 2008... you say that in a virtual machine, this should be less?

Maybe not less than that, but yes, you can run Windows 2008 on 512 MB of RAM, even if it is quite skinny.  1 GB would be good.

All you have to do is try.  Ignore what you see on the physics, they need of more support.  ALSO share memory VM... impossible to physical machines.

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