User`s guide

Setting Up a Virtual Machine 75
Typical Configurations
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. 218).
Guest Operating
systems
RAM,
MB
Video
Memory,
MB
Hard Disk,
MB
Floppy
Drive
CD/DVD
drive
Network
Adapter
Sound
Device
Mac OS X
1024 16 64,000 * * *
Windows 7
512 16 64,000 * * * *
Windows Server 2008
512 16 64,000 * * * *
Windows Vista
512 16 64,000 * * * *
Windows XP
512 16 64,000 * * * *
Windows 2003
512 16 64,000 * * * *
Windows 2000
256 16 64,000 * * * *
Other Windows
256 16 64,000 * * * *
Red Hat Linux
512 3 64,000 * * * *
SUSE Linux
512 3 64,000 * * * *
Debian GNU/Linux
512 3 64,000 * * * *
Ubuntu Linux
512 3 64,000 * * * *
Other Linux
512 3 64,000 * * * *
FreeBSD 6.x
256 16 32,000 * * * *
FreeBSD 7.x
256 16 32,000 * * * *
Other FreeBSD
256 16 32,000 * * * *
Other Guest OSs
256 16 8,000 * * * *