I have a number of Windows XP and Windows 7 virtual machines installed on my Win10 host that have worked fine for months.
Today I had two Win 7 machines started and started a Win XP one, the performance on the XP VM was extremely slow or stalled for minutes at a time. The Win 7 machines were still running OK.
I tried closing all other VM's and XP was still slow, tried a XP and host reboot and XP still slow (10 mins to restart XP).
I have also tried another two WinXP VM's and they are also slow.
I moved one of the XP VM's to another host and it goes fine.
XP task manager shows 100% cpu usage with ~95% kernel times. Host machine is around 20% usage and still responds OK.
Any suggestions?
VMware is also saying the vmware tools are out of date and no 3D graphics will be avail.
Not sure if related but this morning I also couldn't log in to my host Win10 profile until I tried a windows update (no updates) and then restarted (as suggested on forums).
I might try a different user profile when this XP finishes updating vmware tools (40 mins into it so far, zzzz)
Update: Feb 13
Tried on a different profile and same, reinstalled VMware and still the same (XP VM slow, Win7 VM fine).
Looks like the main slow point is disk access, with nothing running I can bring up the start menu pretty quick. Updating the tools took around 1.5 hours.
Tried running an xp vm that a colleague had made with workstation and it was set to use 8 cores and it near froze the host.
