MacOS – Win 7 size within VMWare

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I use VMWare with a Win 7 virtual machine.

I have a late 2012 iMac with 20GB of RAM. I use Windows for …

  • running Groupwise constantly
  • using Respondus occasionally
  • Explorer (please don't judge–I have to test Blackboard LMS occasionally)
    🙂

What is the appropriate size for it to run in?

Best Answer

I'd go with VMWare fusion's defaults for Windows 7:

  • 60 GB drive
  • 1 GB RAM

Unless the memory on the guest OS becomes very constrained, you might only need to bump it to 2 GB to get a little speed up if needed. The 2012 iMac CPU is quite capable and you do have significant amounts of RAM so you could juice the VM to a lot more RAM if needed without starving OS X for memory.

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