Hi folks, a quick question if I may.
I have fusion installed on my mac, and a Win7 vm setup. I don't have this set to run at startup, so there are no Fusion services showing in Activity Monitor, there is a VMWare Fusion Start Menu.
I have the vm setup to use a chunk of memory and 2 cpu cores, but when does VMWare take these resources, and when does it release them? Does this startup service reserve anything?
Reason for asking, I don't have many things set to run at startup, and those that do are pretty small, but I have a large chunk of memory gone before starting up a vm. I can watch Activity and see a lump of memory taken when I start the vm, and released when I stop it, but it's not the amount I have chosen in the settings - Does Fusion reserve all the memory in one go, or as needed? And the same kind of question with the cores, I can't find a way to monitor the cores taken, certainly using the limited Activity Monitor.
The information in the FAQ's and online resources about this kind of thing is somewhat lacking.
Any help or information on this subject would be very much appreciated, especially as I may need several more vm's soon, and will need to manage the numbers pretty closely.
Many thanks.