Default Configurations

A typical virtual machine has the following basic virtual hardware: CPU, memory, hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, sound device, CD/DVD drive, network adapter, USB controller, serial port, printer 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 .

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 .

Guest Operating systems	Memory, MB	Video Memory, MB	Hard Disk, MB	Floppy Drive	CD/DVD Drive	Network Adapter	Sound Device
Mac OS X	1024	32	64,000
Windows 7	1024	256	64,000
Windows Server 2008	1024	128	64,000
Windows Vista	1024	256	64,000
Windows XP	1024	256	64,000
Windows 2003	1024	64	64,000
Windows 2000	256	256	64,000
Windows ME	256	32	8,000
Windows NT	256	32	4,000
Windows 98	256	32	8,000
Windows 95	128	32	2,000
Windows 3.11	64	32	2,000
Other Windows	1024	128	64,000
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	1024	32	64,000
SUSE Linux Enterprise	1024	32	64,000
Debian GNU/Linux	1024	32	64,000
Ubuntu Linux	1024	32	64,000
Fedora Linux	1024	32	64,000
CentOS Linux	1024	32	64,000
OpenSUSE Linux	1024	32	64,000
Mandriva Linux	1024	32	64,000
Other Linux kernel 2.6	1024	32	64,000
Other Linux kernel 2.4	1024	32	64,000
Other Linux	1024	32	64,000
FreeBSD 8.x	256	32	64,000
FreeBSD 7.x	256	32	64,000
Other FreeBSD	256	32	64,000
OS/2 Warp 4.5	256	32	2,000
OS/2 Warp 4	128	32	2,000
eComStation 1.2	256	32	2,000
Other OS/2	128	32	2,000
MS-DOS 6.22	64	32	2,000
Other DOS	32	32	2,000
Solaris 10	1024	32	64,000
OpenSolaris	256	32	64,000
Other Solaris	1024	32	64,000
Other	256	32	8,000