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    <title>topic Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before &amp;quot;boot&amp;quot; starts in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Same issue here with Workstation 10. "Pre-boot" takes several minutes. During this time PC is almost not usable. It's not possible to move the mouse smooth.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Waiting for the bug fix! &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:28:01 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>HarryMuc</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-03-24T10:28:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421456#M20638</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I upgraded from v8 to v9 and then v10.0.1. Every time the loading time of virtual machine is slower.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;From 15sec in v8 it goes to 50sec in v10. &lt;img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So it is normal? the longest time is a black screen even before a boot or starting process of virtual OS begins.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;During than "before" booting time CPU goes up (1 core goes to 100%), but HDD is fine.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:43:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>AD77</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-11-26T13:43:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421457#M20639</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Did you mean the time of booting up guest OS by "loading time of virtual machine"?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:46:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>bonnie201110141</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-11-27T11:46:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421458#M20640</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;No. Booting of VM is fast.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Imean time before it even starts booting. ---&amp;gt; When I open VM in Workstation and click start it take quite *long* time to start boot virtual OS.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here is what I found in my log - between this two lines time difference is 45 seconds:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2013-11-27T07:19:22.140+01:00| vmx| I120: MemSched: pg 590258 np 35861 anon 5159 mem 262144&amp;nbsp; --- so is this normal / common time ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2013-11-27T07:20:07.006+01:00| vmx| I120: MemSched: numvm 1 locked pages: num 0 max 612352&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;during that time on CPU 1 Core is on 100%, and HDD Led is blinking quite often.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:10:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>AD77</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-11-27T12:10:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421459#M20641</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is it a specific VM that you starts slow, or all VMs? What is your guest operating system? And your host OS?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:16:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>bonnie201110141</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-11-27T12:16:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421460#M20642</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am running Windows 7 32bit, Slovak.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yes, it is slow across all my VM's - Windows XP, 7 and 8 and also Ubuntu 12.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Today, I once more do complete re-install of Workstation to see.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:15:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>AD77</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-11-27T13:15:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421461#M20643</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yes, when uninstallation, will you please try remove config file? Also, you can remove Workstation related log files after uninstallation.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:15:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>bonnie201110141</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-11-28T07:15:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421462#M20644</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;So, I done clean install but problem remains. Still "hang-up or delay" at startup.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I clean up registry, and all config files before reinstall.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here is my LOG of install a new VM (Windows XP) - &lt;A href="http://pastebin.com/MxNPzwwA"&gt;http://pastebin.com/MxNPzwwA&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;or here - &lt;A href="http://lab.php5.cz/vmware.log"&gt;http://lab.php5.cz/vmware.log&lt;/A&gt; (last 8 rows shows when it "hang up"). &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;NOTE: In my Workstation 10, I configured to use maximum of memory for VM. (no swap)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 07:25:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>AD77</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-12-09T07:25:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421463#M20645</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I would not recommend to use&lt;BR /&gt; prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100" without a pagefile on a 32bit Windows host.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Either add a pagefile or use a lower value for prefvmx.minVmMemPct&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:56:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>continuum</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-12-09T13:56:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421464#M20646</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Does not help. I tried all 3 possiblities. No change at all.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So, my question is how long it typically takes (I mean, VMware logo animation) in [sec] ?&amp;nbsp; Please, see explanation in my 2nd post.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;NOTE: I tried install VM on classic HDD and SSD also. Result: the same.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:41:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>AD77</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-12-10T07:41:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am having the same issue... Have you been able to resolve yet?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 23:12:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>vgiesbrecht</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-01-25T23:12:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421466#M20648</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Having same issue:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/thread/471129"&gt;VM startup slow, long delay before guest OS starts booting&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:49:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421466#M20648</guid>
      <dc:creator>rn701</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-02-19T16:49:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421467#M20649</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Are all of those VM's imported from previous versions of Workstation?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Try to create new fresh VM and check if issue still persists.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>wmarusiak</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-02-20T08:56:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I can reproduce it internally. Now we have a bug to track it. Thanks for your post!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 02:19:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>bonnie201110141</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-02-21T02:19:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi - I'm glad you were able to reproduce it. We have similar issue on Workstation 9.03 - is there a workaround?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Many thanks!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:23:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>daltonfirthltd</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-07T14:23:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Same issue here with Workstation 10. "Pre-boot" takes several minutes. During this time PC is almost not usable. It's not possible to move the mouse smooth.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Waiting for the bug fix! &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:28:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>HarryMuc</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-24T10:28:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421471#M20653</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;1)&amp;nbsp; What is the VM operating system?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2)&amp;nbsp; What is the host operating system?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3)&amp;nbsp; How much memory does the host have?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4)&amp;nbsp; How much memory have you assigned to the guest(with the slow boot)?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;5)&amp;nbsp; Do you have more than one VM?&amp;nbsp; Does tghe slow boot time appen with all the OS?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As a suggestion I would skip the upgrade from v 8 to v9 to v10 and instead install&amp;nbsp; ws 10 from scratch.&amp;nbsp; I have found that with any program updates (significant ones like WS) some items are left behind and can effect&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; perform.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:44:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>mfelker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-24T23:44:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I had VM Workstation running on Win7 32 Bit, and had problems with a linux guest, a windows 7 guest and an xp guest.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I had 4 GB of RAM running a 750 GB SSD.all hosts had 1 gb or ram assigned, but I was not running them simultaneously.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The slow speed occurs prior to the VM posting.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have since moved to Win8.1 64 bit, 16gb of RAM and the same ssd and am not experiencing the issues.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:21:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>vgiesbrecht</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-25T00:21:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Guess your problem is solved then. Not enough juice before your upgrade&lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 05:34:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>mfelker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-25T05:34:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any guesses what the solution for my problem would be ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Host: Windows 2003 SP2, 4GB, 4 core, 2.66Ghz&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Guest: MS-DOS 6.22, containing IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM and nothing else.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I had no problems starting this in a jiffy from a 5.25 inch floppy 20 years ago on an IBM PC clone 4.77 Mhz and 128k RAM.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;However, VMware Player takes 25 seconds to reach the POST screen (where press F2 to enter BIOS setup message appears) before the boot. During that 25 seconds, all my 4 cores are max'ed out, my mouse pointer goes into slow motion, and all my programs grinds to a halt.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What kind of juice do I need to fix this then ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;On a side note, it takes VMware Player 25 seconds to reach the POST screen for all other guests I tried: Windows 98 SE, Windows XP Pro, Window 7 Pro, and Ubuntu, &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 17:09:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>H3y</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-06-07T17:09:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMWare Workstation 10 - slow load before "boot" starts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421475#M20657</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;MS-DOS was a single core OS and does not knows something about multiple cpu's or cores. If you start MS-DOS, it will use the cpu and this means ever with all available cores. You can fix this via task-manager and change the affinity for the process "vmware-vmx.exe" to one core. Or you set the affinity inside your VMX:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;processor0.use = "FALSE"&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;processor1.use = "TRUE"&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;processor2.use = "FALSE"&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;processor3.use = "FALSE"&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;With this setting inside a virtual machine config (VMX), the VM will run only on the second core. You can verify this via task-manager.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:58:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-Workstation-10-slow-load-before-quot-boot-quot-starts/m-p/421475#M20657</guid>
      <dc:creator>Dayworker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-06-08T22:58:01Z</dc:date>
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