Introduction
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As a rule of thumb, I don’t recommend using more than 25 percent of
your total system RAM. That means if you have installed 4GB (or 4096MB)
on your physical or host system, then select just 1GB for your virtual machine,
and if you have 16GB on your physical system, then select 4GB. The more
RAM you give your virtual machine, the better and faster it will run, but
you must also leave enough RAM for your host operating system and any
other virtual machines you might want to run simultaneously. Your virtual
machines will not use any RAM when you are not using them, but they will
use hard drive space.
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