Running Win7 under Fusion - beachballing

[Azathoth]

I've been unable to find good information on the setup of a Win7 VM on my new 2010 MBP.

When running the VM (Fusion 3.1, running Win7 Home ed. 2GB RAM, no 3D, 1 CPU) on my 2010 MBP (Core i5, 4GB) I get quite a lot of beachballing in the OS X part, as well as general slowdown. Looks like there is very little RAM available (40MB free) - how much RAM should OS X be happy with (running Safari, Thunderbird, itunes) - surely 2GB should be enough to run basic productivity sw?

CPU usage varies between 15-80% (one CPU)



(I have used VirtualBox on Windows before to run Ubunutu on a 2.5GB machine, with 768MB devoted to Ubuntu)

 

[fhall1]

This should be in the "Windows on the Mac" forum

 

[Azathoth]

This should be in the "Windows on the Mac" forum

I didnt see that forum when I was looking where to post. Any way I can move the post?

Part of my question is a more general "how much RAM does OS X need to run" though, as I think it would be the same issue if I was running Ubuntu virtually...

 

[RaZaK]

do you have any background processes running?

Like Superfetch on Windows or anything in Mac OS X?

it seems odd that 2 GB of RAM is not sufficient for Mac OS X.