Need a Whitepaper on HP Virtual Machine parameters?

[chuckk281]

David had a question on Virtual Machine parameters:

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Does anybody have whitepapers on HP Virtual Machine/memory recommendations I'm trying to get the following question answered. 

 1. How much memory does a VM guest actually use?   

 2. If I allocate X gigs to a VM, how much does it actually use? 
 3. How much memory does the VM host need? 
 4. How much swap should I allocate to a VM host? 

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Chris had some info:

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This whitepaper should help with your questions: http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02157777/c02157777.pdf

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Any experiences or "rule-of-thumb" that you use?