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During this tutorial, a Debian virtual machine may need to be restarted. As with other training documents, it is important to note that these steps should be followed on training systems without data or users connected to them.
First, login to Prism Element.
Second, navigate to the VM screen by clicking on Home and selecting VM
Near the top of the screen, click on Table next to Overview.
Double-click the virtual machine which will receive more RAM. Double-clicking it opens the "Update VM" dialog window.
In the window, update the RAM. For this example, the amount of RAM will be increased from 4 to 6.
Afterwards, click the Save button to commit the changes to the virtual machine.
Right-click the virtual machine and select Launch Console.
Login to the virtual machine.
Click on Activities, type ter for terminal, and click on the terminal application.
Check the amount of RAM the virtual machine sees by enter the command
free
Notice the total for RAM is still around 4 million 1K pages. For the new RAM setting to take effect, the virtual machine will need to be "powered off". To shutdown the virtual machine, enter the command
sudo shutdown -h now
When the virtual console shows the power off error, power it on again with the power on button. Afterwards, login, launch terminal from Activities, and enter the command
free
Now, all 6 GB of RAM are available (listed as 6 million 1K pages).
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