Re: Usage of vmware-toolbox-cmd

[Stanislav <ste...@ci...>]

On 3/30/2012 3:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 30.03.2012 13:11, schrieb Stanislav:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question about "vmware-toolbox-cmd". When I run it in the Guest OS(linux) I see:
>> root@ubuntu-console:~# /usr/local/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd stat memlimit          4294967295 MB
>> What does it mean? When I change memory allocated for VM I don't see that this value changed. This is for ESXi 4.1.
> this is not the allocated memory of the VM (RAM)
> this is the LIMIT which can be lower to partly
> force memory get ballooned or even compressed
>
> look for "ressource limits" in the viclient
> these can be changed at runtime also in viclient
> assigned memory itself usually not (depends on license and guest-OS)
>
Thanks!

And how can I get amount of allocated memory in runtime? When I use "cat 
/proc/meminfo" in the Guest OS it shows lower values that I set in the 
viclient for VM.

-- 
Stas