Using WMI To Determine Memory Usage By Virtual Server
Saturday, 16 September 2006 by Michel Roth
The Virtual PC Guy explains how you can determine the actual ammount of memory that is being used by Virtual Server and it's virtual machines.

"When you create a virtual machine under Virtual Server, you configure the amount of memory that you want that virtual machine to believe that it has (say 512mb of RAM). However, Virtual Server needs to use more than that amount of memory to actually run the virtual machine. Virtual Server also needs memory for itself to run emulated devices and store various information about the virtual machine in. Unfortunately, because Virtual Server uses a driver (VMM.SYS) to allocate the memory this information is not easily to determine (i.e. it does not show up in task manager). In the past I posted about how to use PerfMon to see how much memory Virtual Server was actually using, but today I have a nice little VB Script that talks to the Virtual Server WMI interfaces to determine this information."

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