When the windows VM is off does it still consume memory?

[JonathanTad]

Hello,

Lets say I assigned 4GB of Memory to my Windows VM, When the VM is turned off can the Mac use all 16GB of memory it has? or it still doest use the 4GB assigned to the VM?

Thank you

 

[PaulChristopher@Parallels]

Hello JonathanTad, Yes. Please refer to this article for RAM Management in Parallels Virtual Machines.