What are good settings for running Windows 7 virtually?

[NOSintake]

So I know you can go and change settings in just about any VM player, but I was wondering what are good settings to run Windows 7 under. I gave it 40gb of hard drive, 2GB of RAM (out of 4GB, which might lead to my problem), 1 processor, and what ever the default is for just about anything else. The reason I'm asking is because it seems a little sluggish, and not very responsive. I'm not sure if that's because of my specs, VM Fusion, graphics card (9400m) or just running it virtually to begin with.

 

[Patrick J]

So I know you can go and change settings in just about any VM player, but I was wondering what are good settings to run Windows 7 under. I gave it 40gb of hard drive, 2GB of RAM (out of 4GB, which might lead to my problem), 1 processor, and what ever the default is for just about anything else. The reason I'm asking is because it seems a little sluggish, and not very responsive. I'm not sure if that's because of my specs, VM Fusion, graphics card (9400m) or just running it virtually to begin with.

My VMWARE was running 7 very slow so I swapped over to Parallels and it's blazing fast.

 

[NOSintake]

My VMWARE was running 7 very slow so I swapped over to Parallels and it's blazing fast.

I'll have to check it out then. Reason I went with VMware is because I kept hearing people say that Parallels wasn't as stable as VMware

 

[jetoo]

I tried fusion v2, it worked fine.
but then I moved to Parrallels 5, and it's great!
I just put 1 core, 1gb for Windows 7 32bits and it's fast, i've installed Office 2010 on it, there's no lag.
The crystal function is awesome.

 

[maflynn]

I'm running win7 on version 3 of vmware and its very perky. I have 1.5gig of ram allocated and I dedicated the two cpus. What I found surprising is that when I switch over to the host OS, its still very responsive even though I dedicated both cores to vmware.

Over all, vmware has done another great job, providing good performance and rock solid stability.