Assign more RAM than 4GB to Windows 11 ARM (if iMac only has 8GB total)

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop on a Mac with Apple silicon' started by SWANDY, Sep 23, 2021.

  1. SWANDY

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    My M1 iMac has only 8GB of RAM. (Yep made the same mistake forgetting that Parallels as opposed to Bootcamp will only allocate/use half the existing RAM to the Windows VM.) Is there anyway - lets not discuss the issues on the Mac side if I do this since I generally don't run Windows and Mac apps at the same time - to allocate more than 4GB of RAM to the Windows 10/11 FOA virtual machine?
     
  2. SWANDY

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    Thanks. I did that but the options are either 2 or 4 GB or to put in the amount manually. (Like it says 4096 now.) Thanks. That's what I have read to leave it alone.
     

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