Win7 Host Win98 Guest Slow

[mgerbasio]

Hi,

I just posted a question about this setup and Time Sync. I have a second problem where the guest is running very slow.

I had the guest installed on this notebook. They I upgraded the hard drive to a ssd and installed Win7 x32. I installed vmware player 4.02 and copied the guest back onto the ssd from the old drive. It runs, but much slower as I can tell how much time some of the applications now require. Also, when I hold a key, like the down arrow on a menu, it doesn't move the cursor immediately, they queues up a number of keystrokes and moves the cursor when I've stopped holding the key. I did a search but can't seem to find a solution. I tried to uninstall and reinstall player, then did the same for vmware tools. Same issue. I don't have a cd drive installed on the notebook, it is a Thinkpad T61 and the drive is removable if that makes a difference.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.

[hbato]

Have you installed vmware tools inside the guest?

You might also look into this guide:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_guestos9.html

Regards, Harold

[mgerbasio]

Harold,

Thanks. I had looked at this but no luck. Been searching for an answer but can't come up with anything. The guest ran fine in WinXP, I even tried to clone and update the guest, still no luck.

[continuum]

Xp is a faster host for VMplayer than Win7.
Anyway - post the vmware.log - maybe the guest is misconfigured

[mgerbasio]

I opened a tech support case. First I sent the log files, then they called to arrange to log into my PC. Unfortunately, they weren't able to find a problem but were able to see both the time (not) syncing and the other issue with it being slow. I'll try an get the log files uploaded here and appreciate the help.

[gszoniec]

How much memory did you assign to the guest. Try increase that amount

and tell me if it helps.

[mgerbasio]

I'm running Win7 32 bit so I only have 3mb total available and assigned 512kb to the guest Win98 OS based on this kb article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;253912#top

I tried to bump it up to 640kb but that didn't help.

[continuum]

your VM may be completely misconfigured - we could help if you post the vmware.log

at the moment all we can do is fishing in the mud

[mgerbasio]

Thanks again for the help. I attached the file.

[continuum]

do you have a special reason to run with this very old virtual hardware version 4 ?

[mgerbasio]

No. I did an upgrade and created a clone but that didn't make a difference.

[mgerbasio]

Vmware Technical Support, while very helpful, wasn't able to find a problem. They said everything looked good after taking infomation from both host PCs.

[mgerbasio]

In case anyone else is following this thread, the problem is definately Workstation 8. I uninstalled it, then tried the latest version of Player, same problem. I uninstalled Player then installed Workstation 6.5 and it is running perfect, very fast.

[mgerbasio]

I just tried Workstation v9 on a Win7 x64 notebook and the Win98 guest VM is still slow. A program that took 13 seconds takes more than 10 minutes on WS v9.