Why does WINMSD.EXE report that my virtual machine only has 64mb of ram?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/12/02/273639.aspxA couple of people have noticed that if they run WINMSD.EXE on their virtual machine it reports that they have 64mb of ram - irrespective of the amount of ram that they actually have assigned to the virtual machine. The reason for this discrepancy isen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)re: Why does WINMSD.EXE report that my virtual machine only has 64mb of ram?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/12/02/273639.aspx#275137Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:44:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:275137Virtual PC GuyYes, and yes. <br> <br>Cheers, <br>Ben<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275137" width="1" height="1">re: Why does WINMSD.EXE report that my virtual machine only has 64mb of ram?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/12/02/273639.aspx#274883Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:07:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:274883.Is all memory allocated upon initialization of the vm? <br> <br>And is the behaviour the same in VS2005?<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=274883" width="1" height="1">re: Why does WINMSD.EXE report that my virtual machine only has 64mb of ram?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/12/02/273639.aspx#273874Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:56:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:273874Virtual PC GuyHi Scott, <br> <br>This is actually purely accidental. Moving from VPC 5.2 --&gt; VPC 2004 we change the way that we allocate memory to virtual machines (done for various technical reasons) and it turns out that Task Manager does not successfully track the mechanism we now use. <br> <br>Cheers, <br>Ben<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=273874" width="1" height="1">re: Why does WINMSD.EXE report that my virtual machine only has 64mb of ram?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/12/02/273639.aspx#273803Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:26:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:273803Scott Allenwhat I am curious about is the Task Manager 'Mem Usage' for VirtualPC.exe in the host system. During the 2004 beta this seemed to indicate the total memory taken by the process and by the VMs that were running. Now that memory seems to be tucked away somewhere and not reported by any tools.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=273803" width="1" height="1">