Am currently running Ubuntu 11.10 on Virtual Box on my Mac. I have the set the memory usage to 1.5 GB for this instance. My Mac has total memory of 4GB.
I would like to know, what is the recommended memory for Ubuntu 11.10 running on Virtual Box.
Am currently running Ubuntu 11.10 on Virtual Box on my Mac. I have the set the memory usage to 1.5 GB for this instance. My Mac has total memory of 4GB.
I would like to know, what is the recommended memory for Ubuntu 11.10 running on Virtual Box.
Answer from Apple forum
Yes. In other words not more than, say, 1 GB to Ubuntu and 1 GB to Windows if you have both running at the same time. If you only run one at a time then a maximum of 2 GBs can be allocated to each. Hope that's a bit clearer.
In reality you may need to cut back the allocation just a tad to account for the total amount of RAM the running VM uses because it will include overhead for the emulator itself. You basically want to retain at least 2 GBs for OS X when running Lion because that is the minimum requirement for Lion.