Allocating RAM to VMware Player

Allocating RAM to VMware Player

When VMware is used to run an application on it, It uses certain amount of RAM out of the total amount of RAM available on computer. In a scenario where computer has a total of 3GB of RAM and suppose, that out of that 3GB RAM, 1.5GB is used for general operations by Windows. So, the rest amount of RAM would be used by the VMware in order to run any application/s on it. 

However, it should be noted that some time the usage of the RAM by VMware depends on the application being ran on VMware. If in case, VMware uses the more amount of RAM than the amount being used by Windows, the applications running on windows would crash as they would not get enough RAM to be executed. So, to overcome this problem RAM for VMware could manually be allocated.

Below is an image which shows the usage of RAM by Windows and at the same time usage of RAM by VMware. 

In order to Allocate the RAM manually to VMware, Click on the "Edit virtual machine settings" and follow the steps showed in the following Images.

Once Clicked on the "Edit virtual machine settings" the above mentioned image pops up and the Red Highlighted area shows the current automatic allocated RAM in use. In order to change  or allocate the RAM manually click on "Memory for this virtual machine"  (as shown in Image below) and enter the amount/number manually to allocate the RAM. Once entered the number click "OK" and the entered amount of RAM would be set for VMware Player.