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My host is having 32G RAM. My guest is configured to have 10G RAM. But nevertheless the overall RAM consumption reaches about 19G. Because of that vmdk memory mapped file.
– akir
Commented Mar 27, 2023 at 14:05
VMware will not let your real memory exceed 10 GB . So memory swapping may be occurring in the guest. That is how it should work. According to memory settings, swapping can occur. But that may be a guest issue.
– anon
Commented Mar 27, 2023 at 14:10
I have swap disabled at all. I've attached a RAMMap screenshot where it shows that the memory consumed by doing a memory mapped file of a guests's vmdk file. My question is there any way to stop it from doing this.
– akir
Commented Mar 27, 2023 at 14:26
Perhaps try using a bit less memory in the Guest machine. I have 3 VMware machines running here and not memory issues. Try less guest memory.
– anon
Commented Mar 27, 2023 at 14:28

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