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On 12/13/2013 04:50, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> The used RAM is usually VM RAM + GPU RAM + (QT4 GUI) + overhead. How
> did you measure those 1263MB on the host?

This is the total size of the VirtualBox process for the VM, no Qt GUI. 
I expected it to be somewhat higher than 512MB, but not 2.5 times.

Yuri