Parallels Desktop

joenj07087 · Apr 9, 2011

Hi everyone, so let me get this straight, when I use Parallel Desktop in my Imac, I have to decide how to split resources{Memory and Cores) between windows and OS X? so if at one point I want Windows 7 to use all 8 gigs of RAm I have in my Imac for a program like Sonar X1, would that make the OS X side slow down or crash completely? sorry about these questions but I'm new to this!

I have an IMac 2.93 GHz Intel Core i7 8 GB Memory 1333 DDR3 running Snow Leopard 10.6.7 and Windows 7 with Parallel Desktop.

simsaladimbamba · Apr 9, 2011

Let' say your Mac OS X side uses 2GB of RAM and the RAM is wired* and you assign 8GB to Parallels, and Windows wants to use it, then only 6GB is available to Parallels, as the 2GB is already reserved to Mac OS X and can't be taken away.

* Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor

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