Fusion 4.13 running painfully slow.

[Nevering]

Installed Mountain Lion and I think 4.13 Fusion was already installed. Fusion went from running comforatably to painfully slow. A copy of a file will take a couple minutes just to display the option to move / copy on a drag .... Can this be fixed, is it going to fixed.

[ColoradoMarmot]

What's the host hardware config, and what's the guest VM config.

Do you have antivirus installed?

Did you disable system restore in the guest?

[Nevering]

Early 2009 Mac Pro 2 X 2,93 Quad-Core Xeon

12 GB Memory

ATI Radion HD 4870

OS X 10.8

Antivirus is install and was on 10.7 when everything was running fine.

1 processor and 2 gb memory for guest

Disable system restore in the quest ?  explain please.

[ro32901]

Since I have 3.1.4 and that won't work with ML and seems people are have issues even with 4.13 I'm going to give Parallels   a shot. Half the cost too. I don't need or want these BS problems, but I do want ML.

RO

[Nevering]

I'm thinking the same thing.  Have you had any experience with Parallels?

[ro32901]

No I haven't. But can it be any worse than Fusion? There's probably pro/con for both of them. But if 4.13 is having problems don't think I want to go there.

Maybe someone else will join in with comments

RO

[ColoradoMarmot]

On 10.8, you'll have better luck with the technical preview - MUCH better support for both guest and host.

System restore is in the windows control panel - it maintains a series of copies of the OS itself (a limited time machine) to recover from failures (mostly software, not hardware).  During the process, the VM slows down a lot, and if you only rarely use the VM, it will happen every time you boot.  Search the control panel for system restore, then disable it.

BTW, the low-post count parallels advocates may or may not be credible.

[Nevering]

Backup is not on for any of my VM's .. Remember this happened on the install of Mountain Lion... Before I was able to comfortably run 2 VMs simultaneously.

[ColoradoMarmot]

System restore and backup are two different things.

Have you tried the technical preview for Fusion 5?  It has much better 10.8 support.

[Nevering]

I'm aware that backup and resotre are different, nether are running. If backup is not running there is nothing to restore.

No I haven't tried the preview.  How far along is it toward final ?

[ColoradoMarmot]

System restore has nothing to do with backup and restore - two completely different things (with a similar name).

Go to Control Panel->System and Security->System, then pick system protection on the left side.  On the system protection tab, under system restore, make sure that the protection settings are set to 'off'.

The tech preview is pretty darn stable, and works much better with 10.8.

[skygremlin]

I am having the same problem.  The I have 4 VM's I use (3 WinXP SP3 and 1 Red Hat)  They all seemed to work fine, until today.  I can't do anything with any of them..  Very frustrating..  I tried reinstalling the VM tools with no luck..

Mountain Lion with Fusion 4.1.3

[ColoradoMarmot]

Try the Fusion 5 Technical Preview.

[Nevering]

Where do I get it ?  I looked for it.

[ColoradoMarmot]

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/fusiontp2012

[Nevering]

Can this preview run with VM 4.13 installed on same machine ?

[skygremlin]

So I got home from the site and loaded up my VM again and things now seem to be working normally again inside my Win XP VM's..  WTH...  Here are some notes...

My mac hardware

- OS 10.8

- 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

- 8 Gig of RAM

     - Only a gig of Memory allocated for the VM (but this has never been an issue)

- USB hub connected to one of my ports

     - USB Mouse connected to the hug  --  I thought I've done this before with no issues...  Plus disconnected with no change

- Verizon MiFi Connected to the other USB port

- Power connector plugged in all day

Software

I had a handfull of apps running today everything else seemed fine except my VM (I can't remember what exactly, But I would guess):

- Skype

- Fusion

- Safari

- GoTo Meeting

- Diagrammix

- Word

- Chrome (maybe)?

Now:

- Skype

- Fusion

- Safari

[ColoradoMarmot]

Yes.

[Nevering]

I installed 5 and on running it, it displays my existing VMs. Does this mean that both 5 and 4.13 can work with the same VM or once that I open it in 5, it's toast in 4.13.?

thanks

[ColoradoMarmot]

You'll have to downgrade the virtual hardware (in advanced settings), and uninstall/reinstall the version 4 tools.  Otherwise, yes, you can go back and forth.

The TP is pretty darn stable at this point - I never go back to 4 these days.