Tweet Memory in a virtualised environment is split up in three memory types. Virtual Memory – Allocates memory through a syscall to the operating system. This runs at the application level in the same way on virtual machines as in physical machines Physical Memory – Runs at the OS level. In simplistic terms it uses [...]
Tweet Virtual machines are made up of the following files. vmname.vmx – Config file vmname.vmdk – Describes charateristics vmname-flat.vmdk – (hidden by default) Contains the data vmname.nvram – VM BIOS vmname.log – log file vmware#.log – VMware log file vmname.vswp – Virtual machine swap file on the ESX(i) host vmname.vmsd – snapshot descriptor file Limits [...]
