how to create swap partition on my mac

Hi All,

I am very new to MAC OS and I have VMWare installed on my MAC upon VMware running window7.

And I am using Macbook Air with 8GB RAM the problem is I am running low RAM space and due to this system gets hugs all times.

Rather than upgrading to new lappy just wanted to enquiry is there a chance to create a swap partition ?

if it possible please let me the know the process to make it.

Advanced Thanx

Srinivas

Posted on Jun 26, 2014 3:23 PM

16 replies

Csound1

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Jun 26, 2014 4:11 PM in response to Kappy

VMware and VirtualBox just write their virtual swapfiles to the virtual hard disks they create. If VMware has been installed to use a Boot Camp partition as the Windows source then it will swap to the usual location on the Boot Camp partition. Which sounds a bit like a disaster in the formative stage. I assume (but am not sure) that Parallels is the same.

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