Hello, I just purchased latest Parallels for Mac and it is running great on my 2010 Mac Mini. I have upgraded my Mini to 8GB of RAM and currently 24/7 have a Linux Guest OS running with 2GB of RAM. My question is has anyone run 3 Guest OS on a Mac Mini 2010 with 8 GB of RAM? Should I lower my Linux Guest OS to only 1GB ?? Would the new 2012 Mac Mini with 16GB be better to run 3 Guest OS 24/7 or can I configure my current model to work? Where is best resources to configure Parallels for Mac? Thanks in advance
Mac OS should have at least 4gb of RAM left for it to run all processes - it means if you have 8 GB in total - need to distribute 4 gb among VMs, With 16 GB you have 12 GB left for 3 vms - more than you actually need i suppose SO 16 GB configuration is actually better, but you can try your current as well.
Thanks for quick reply. Yes I guess how many VM's does one need... Currently I run just one VM. Xubuntu 11.10 as I like the interface for handling my VPS. Linux has a nice ssh terminal... I suppose I could probably get Windows 7 on my current setup with 8 GB as only 2 GB for Linux VM. Probably then CPU limitations come into effect. ?? Mike
Actually it should be fine - you can assign 2 GB to WIn 7 as well. Parallels officially supports more than one VM running at the same time and 8 GB of RAM - is a good configuration
So even with the processor in the Mac Mini Parallels is fine with 3 OS's at same ? To be honest with you I could run Xubuntu in 1 GB of Ram and allocate more to Windows 7. Quick question, in Video allocation is that from the assigned RAM for each VM ? Mike
Pardon? Video is allocated separately and has nothing in common with RAM. Check in Configure --> Hardware --> Video
