Responsiveness of a Virtual Machine Vista Home Premium

[mkummer]

Hello -

I just switched from Parallels and XP to VWware and Vista Home Premium. I notice a certain sluggishness after starting the VM from sleep. That usually gets better after some minutes and start of some problems. F.i. if I open the Computer in explorer, it takes some time before opening the window. Often I get the message "no response... but this disappears after a short while.

Are their any tipps i might consider? I usually quit Safari and iTunes before I start the VM. I do have open Mail, iChat and iCal. I have configured the VM to 1 GB memory (out of 2 GB) and dual processor use. I have a MacBook Pro 17 of the first gen with Dual Core 2.17 GHz. The VM has about 8 GB of free space. I use it with NAT sharing. I did not change the standard defaults in Vista after the install. I configured a printer over TCP.

Probably there are things I shall consider?

regards, Michael

[BP9906]

You may not get much help because it is against Microsoft's EULA to run Vista Home (premium or basic) in a VM.

As for your slowness, how much memory does your MBP have? If it only has 2 GB w/ 1 GB to the VM, I'd suggest closing more apps on OSX or going to Fusion's preferences and change the memory performance preference to OSX instead of VM. I've noticed that helps my Vista VMs a lot.

[mkummer]

Thanks for the answer. As far as I know and red in different locations, this is different in germany - according to the law here, this restriction is not applying. Anyway - the VM was activated w/o problems.

I shall try your suggestions. Thanks again.

regards, Michael