I upgraded to fusion 4.1.1 in January. It's now incredibly slow (>5 minutes to open Quicken), and every time I start the VM is tells me again that the VM is using at least one SCSI, and that fusion-compatible SCSI drivers are not standard in XP. It's not clear whether the slowness is because of the SCSI issue, and it's not totally clear whether my VM already has compatible drivers -- the message does not actually say my VM needs different drivers, maybe it says this to all XP VMs on startup!?
After following the link to the vmware site where it said I could get the SCSI driver, XP didn't seem to know what to do with the image I downloaded, even after I figured out it was a disk image that had to be mounted -- it's not clear whether it actually found anything to load as a SCSI driver, after several attempts. Unfortunately, I've apparently forgotten how to install XP drivers -- I was hoping to have been done with XP config issues when I imported my Dell laptop to Fusion in 2009. Really regretting upgrading to fusion 4.1.1, from 3.1.1, which was working fine.
One think that surprises me is why 3.1.1 didn't complain about my SCSI drive, but 4.1.1 does -- I was actually surprised that my old Dell laptop was using SCSI, I had assumed it was IDE, but I don't have the physical computer anymore to check.
Is there a way to convert my VM to use IDE without losing any data, or should I try to use LSI Logic's drivers -- I think the one on the vmware site are BusLogic, or something like that.
Any clues would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Don
