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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1307842" data-attributes="member: 24098">VMWare dynamically expands the VHD as needed.  So, it's OK to go with the default.This is an interesting question.  I suppose it would help if the applications you ran were multi-processor capable.  But since the vast majority are not, I don't see that it would make much of a difference.  It would be nice if VMWare could dedicate specific cores to the VM, but that's not how it works.  Unfortunately today's multiprocessing in virtualization is more abstract than that.It depends on your OS and the requirements of the applications you run within it.  Generally Windows 7 is comfortable with 2GB in my experience.  If you're running more heavy hitter apps, 4GB+ is preferable.  Just make sure your host can still have at least 2GB to itself.</blockquote>