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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="create-vm-wizard-hardware">
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| 4 | <title>Create Virtual Machine Wizard: Hardware</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | Use this page to configure hardware settings for the virtual
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| 9 | machine.
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| 10 | </p>
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| 11 | <fig id="fig-create-vm-hardware">
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| 12 | <title>Creating a Virtual Machine: Hardware</title>
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| 13 | <xref href="images/create-vm-3.png" format="png" platform="htmlhelp">
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| 14 | <image href="images/create-vm-3.png" width="10cm" placement="break">
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| 15 | <alt>Creating a Virtual Machine: Hardware</alt>
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| 16 | </image>
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| 17 | </xref>
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| 18 | <image platform="ohc" href="images/create-vm-3.png" width="10cm" placement="break">
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| 19 | <alt>Creating a Virtual Machine: Hardware</alt>
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| 20 | </image>
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| 21 | </fig>
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| 22 | <p>
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| 23 | The following fields are available on this wizard page:
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| 24 | </p>
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| 25 | <ul>
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| 26 | <li>
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| 27 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Base Memory.</b> Select the
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| 28 | amount of RAM that <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> should allocate every time
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| 29 | the virtual machine is started. The amount of memory
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| 30 | selected here will be taken away from your host machine and
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| 31 | presented to the guest OS, which will report this size as
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| 32 | the virtual machines installed RAM.
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| 33 | </p>
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| 34 | <note type="caution">
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| 35 | <p>
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| 36 | Choose this setting carefully. The memory you give to the
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| 37 | VM will not be available to your host OS while the VM is
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| 38 | running, so do not specify more than you can spare.
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| 39 | </p>
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| 40 | <p>
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| 41 | For example, if your host machine has 4 GB of RAM and you
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| 42 | enter 2048 MB as the amount of RAM for a particular
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| 43 | virtual machine, you will only have 2 GB left for all the
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| 44 | other software on your host while the VM is running. If
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| 45 | you run two VMs at the same time, even more memory will be
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| 46 | allocated for the second VM, which may not even be able to
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| 47 | start if that memory is not available.
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| 48 | </p>
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| 49 | <p>
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| 50 | On the other hand, you should specify as much as your
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| 51 | guest OS and your applications will require to run
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| 52 | properly. A guest OS may require at least 1 or 2 GB of
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| 53 | memory to install and boot up. For best performance, more
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| 54 | memory than that may be required.
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| 55 | </p>
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| 56 | </note>
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| 57 | <p>
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| 58 | Always ensure that the host OS has enough RAM remaining. If
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| 59 | insufficient RAM remains, the system might excessively swap
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| 60 | memory to the hard disk, which effectively brings the host
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| 61 | system to a standstill.
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| 62 | </p>
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| 63 | <p>
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| 64 | As with other <b outputclass="bold">Create Virtual
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| 65 | Machine</b> wizard settings, you can change this
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| 66 | setting later, after you have created the VM.
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| 67 | </p>
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| 68 | </li>
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| 69 | <li>
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| 70 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Processor(s).</b> Select the
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| 71 | number of virtual processors to assign to the VM.
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| 72 | </p>
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| 73 | <p>
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| 74 | It is not advised to assign more than half of the total
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| 75 | processor threads from the host machine.
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| 76 | </p>
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| 77 | </li>
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| 78 | <li>
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| 79 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Enable EFI.</b> Enables
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| 80 | Extensible Firware Interface (EFI) booting for the guest OS.
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| 81 | </p>
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| 82 | </li>
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| 83 | </ul>
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| 84 | <p>
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| 85 | Click <b outputclass="bold">Next</b> to go to the next
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| 86 | wizard page.
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| 87 | </p>
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| 88 | </body>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | </topic>
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