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Subject: [VBox] Why VirtualBox process is so large?
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I have the VM that is allocated 512MB of base memory for the guest, but 
its total memory size on host is 1263MB. This seems excessive.
What is the normal memory overhead for the VM? Is there a way to reduce it?
Documentation doesn't elaborate on this.

virtualbox-4.2.18
9.2

Yuri