How can I give more than 8GB to a VM?

[PlanetWilson]

Is there any way to give more than 8GB to a VM? I know in VMWare that the UI doesn't alow it but you can manually edit the vmx file to go over.

Will Parallels support more than 8GB any time soon?

 

[YanaYana]

Please let me know how much RAM do you have on your Mac?

 

[PlanetWilson]

16GB in my MacBook Pro

 

[YanaYana]

You are not able to put more than 50% RAM to your virtual machine - all your system will become unmanageable in this case

 

[PlanetWilson]

That doesn't make sense. I recently only had 12GB but was able to have an 8 GB VM?

 

[Parallels User]

What YanaYana should have told you first, but didn't, is that Parallels restricts the maximum RAM per VM to 8 GB.
That 50% rule applies if you have less than 6 GB of RAM, but above that, obviously that reserving 3-4 GB for OS X should be enough.
I'm not aware of any way to hack more (than 8 GB) RAM to the VM, you can try editing the preferences/config file for the VM manually (backup first) and see what happens.

 

[TremayneC]

This is a crazy idea! I have 16gb on my mac and need a 12gb VM for testing. Mac OSX can run off of 2gb. Where's the sense?