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Advanced Topics
Default Configurations
A typical virtual machine has the following basic virtual hardware: CPU, memory, hard disk drive,
floppy disk drive, sound device, CD/DVD drive, network adapter, USB controller, serial port, printer
port connected to the printer set as the default in Mac OS.
Note: Apart from the basic hardware, you can add new devices to your virtual machine using the Virtual
Machine Configuration dialog (p. 169).
The amount of memory and the size of hard disks vary for different guest OSs. Refer to the table
below to learn the memory and hard disk values that are allocated to a virtual machine depending
on the guest operating system that will be installed in it. Virtual hard disks for typical virtual
machines are always created in the expanding format (p. 172).
Guest Operating systems
Memory,
MB
Video
Memory,
MB
Hard
Disk, MB
Floppy
Drive
CD/DV
D Drive
Networ
k
Adapter
Sound
Device
Mac OS X
1024 32 64,000
Windows 7
1024 256 64,000
Windows Server 2008
1024 128 64,000
Windows Vista
1024 256 64,000
Windows XP
1024 256 64,000
Windows 2003
1024 64 64,000
Windows 2000
256 256 64,000
Windows ME
256 32 8,000
Windows NT
256 32 4,000
Windows 98
256 32 8,000
Windows 95
128 32 2,000
Windows 3.11
64 32 2,000
Other Windows
1024 128 64,000
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1024 32 64,000
SUSE Linux Enterprise
1024 32 64,000
Debian GNU/Linux
1024 32 64,000
Ubuntu Linux
1024 32 64,000
Fedora Linux
1024 32 64,000
CentOS Linux
1024 32 64,000
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