Hello, After much effort I recently built my first VM but have a few questions. After much reading I still am not clear about ram and cpu assignment with a VM. Here's what I have.
Intel dual core 2.7 ghz-8 gb ram-host is Windows 7-guest is Windows 8 Pro running in VMPlayer.
I assigned one cpu and 3 gb ram to my VM.
If I do not have VMplayer running does my host have access to both cpu's and all 8 gb of ram or does it utilize only one cpu and 5 gb of ram?
When I set up the VM I set disk size at 75 gb. Would I benefit if I reduced that?
I'm still having problems activating Windows 8 within the VM but I'll continue reading before I get into more questions about that.
Thanks.