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.
Click
Next, and you’ll get to the Hard Disk screen. Choose
Create
Virtual Hard Disk and click
Create. You should be asked which hard disk
file type to use. Select the suggested default of VDI.
In the next screen, you can decide whether
you want the hard drive
you are creating to be allocated dynamically or at a fixed size. If you choose
