Recommended Settings for Parallels

[soapage]

I am currently running windows settings on parallels... i have 8gigs ram and the new i7. what settigns should i put for the ram i want parallels to use and how many cores should put....it says 1-4 :S

 

[itsjustmeee]

I have the new i5 and was wondering the same thing ..... but be careful. When I added more cores, Windows saw it as a new computer and gave me "you have to authorize Windows" message, so I just reverted back to the last snapshot so I didn't have to deal with it.

 

[soapage]

Parallels: What is the ideal ram and processor alocation

I am currently running parallels on my new 15" i7. I have 8 gigs of ram. How many cores should i be allocating to parallesl... it says 1-4?? what about ram? i have 8 gigs and dont know if I should split it half and half.

 

[fhall1]

I am currently running parallels on my new 15" i7. I have 8 gigs of ram. How many cores should i be allocating to parallesl... it says 1-4?? what about ram? i have 8 gigs and dont know if I should split it half and half.

What are you running in your virtual machine? Windows7? XP? 32-bit or 64-bit?

If Win7 32 bit, 2 cores and 4GB RAM will allow it to fly...I don't think 32-bit will recognize more than 4GB RAM.

 

[soapage]

What are you running in your virtual machine? Windows7? XP? 32-bit or 64-bit?

If Win7 32 bit, 2 cores and 4GB RAM will allow it to fly...I don't think 32-bit will recognize more than 4GB RAM.

I am running windows 7 ultimate 64bit

 

[fhall1]

I'd still start out with 2 cores and 4GB RAM and see how you like the performance. You can always easily adjust those settings later.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I've found that more RAM isn't necessarily better, when it comes to virtual machines. Allocating 1GB RAM to your VMs when you only have 2GB total isn't such a great idea. However... after I upgraded to 4GB and left my VM RAM allocation alone, the VMs flew.

 

[itsjustmeee]

This brings up a point that I was asking about in another thread. When I tried to "fine tune" my windows XP with changing the amount of cores on my new i5, I got the "you have to authorize this version of windows", etc. I guess that windows interpreted the change in cores as running it on a new machine, so I just went back to the last snapshot before I made the change and everything was fine again.

How are you guys changing these settings in Parallels and getting around this ...... or am I the only one having this problem??