User`s guide

Setting Up a Virtual Machine 66
Default Configurations
A typical virtual machine has the following basic virtual hardware: CPU, memory, hard disk
drive, floppy disk drive, sound device (except FreeBSD and MS-DOS virtual machines),
CD/DVD drive, network adapter, USB controller, serial port, parallel 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. 170).
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. 217).
Guest Operating systems
Memory,
MB
Video
Memory,
MB
Hard
Disk, MB
Floppy
Drive
CD/DV
D Drive
Networ
k
Adapte
r
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