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How can virtual machines consume so little RAM on the physical host machine?

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Mar 15, 20263114 views
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I'm running VirtualBox on a Windows XP machine with 2GB RAM. I've created a virtual Ubuntu machine and allocated it a base memory of 750MB. Just to put it to a test, I ran 20 things at once on the virtual machine. According to "top" in ubuntu, 750 megs of memory were being used, as well as consider…

Error Output

Process               VirtualBox     VirtualBox#1     Total
PoolNonpagedBytes     5,840          42,552           48,392
PoolPagedBytes        119,79…

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The columns in Task Manager can give misleading figures -- for accurate memory usage per process, you could use perfmon (Performance Monitor in Control Panel) and look at the "private bytes" figures. To show this, go into perfmon, click to add the c…

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