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PreetinderBajwa

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Hi,

I installed Fusion 3 and 32bit Win 7. I allocated 32GB to it. Now when I check inside I see 21GB free (I have installed MS office 2010 and Smartdraw). I have access to VM ware setting where I can reduce the size of the Fusion 3 from 32 GB to a lesser number and I was thinking maybe 22GB, thus reclaiming 10GB for Mac.

Do you think making such a change on the fly will make something go wrong on the Mac side or inside the VM.....

BTW, I have the fully loaded MBA 11.6".

Thanks in Advance.

Preetinder
 
PreetinderBajwa said:
Hi,

I installed Fusion 3 and 32bit Win 7. I allocated 32GB to it. Now when I check inside I see 21GB free (I have installed MS office 2010 and Smartdraw). I have access to VM ware setting where I can reduce the size of the Fusion 3 from 32 GB to a lesser number and I was thinking maybe 22GB, thus reclaiming 10GB for Mac.

Do you think making such a change on the fly will make something go wrong on the Mac side or inside the VM.....

BTW, I have the fully loaded MBA 11.6".

Thanks in Advance.

Preetinder
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You can reduce your drive space for VM under settings- After the VM machine is shut down.

Does not affect any performance at all. I only give mine 18GB, but I am running XP not 7.
 
peterb69 said:
Does Win XP work on the Air? I thought there were no drivers for the hardware in XP.
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Your running Fusion, as am I. So yes, VMware has supported XP since at least 08', perhaps before then.

Runs great btw, I now use Unity mode exclusively.
 
Didn't really work

Hi everyone,

I tried the VMware resizing from 32 to 22 GB, however it wouldn't let me reduce the size - the pop up says the size should be between 32GB and 2TB, please enter a valid size.

I guess once you choose the size you kind of live with it ! Yes i only had the Fusion 3 switeched on, and the windows OS was shut down.

Any experiences, tricks ? 😀

Thanks

Preetinder
 
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