Mavericks 6.02 Windows 7 slooow

[Martin_59]

guest (windows 7) running awfully slow - after years of 100% joy using VMWare Fusion

I read something about a "shared folders" problem.

So I disabled "shared folders", enabled again - problem is gone (at least for now).

what happens here?

[Coach300]

You mention the word "years" of using Fusion...several years on the same computer? Migrating to Mavericks when going to Fusion 6 at the same time?

I had numerous issues with a 2010 MBP running Win7 Guest after doing those same upgrades (previous upgrades from Fusion 3 and 4, plus other upgrades to OS X, no issues). I did improve things by doing "Prevent App Nap" (Finder icon for Fusion, Get Info), removing all shared folders, and also reducing the memory and processors assigned to the VM. Previously, I allocated 2048 MB of my 4 GB as well as 2 of 4 processor cores to the guest, but once running in Mavericks/Fusion 6, I went down to 1024MB and 1 processor core for the guest, and things improved dramatically.

I did since get a new MBP and things are amazingly faster, but the above is strictly as things were configured on my older Mac.

[Martin_59]

In my files I have a license for VMWAre version "one" - so I am a user from the beginning on

I used Windows XP until end 2011 or so ... since then Windows 7

My MacBook Pro ist a mid 2012 retina "ivy bridge"

so most probably I moved a vmware windows 7 installation from my older macbook

should I move to the most actual macbook pro? :smileycool: which one do you own - "Haswell" late 2013?

finally said I feel the ball is in vmware's playground ...

(sorry for my bad english)

[Linjo]

What version of VMware Fusion are you using?

[Martin_59]

6.02 most actual

[Linjo]

Upgraded vmware tool and hardware version?

// Linjo

[Martin_59]

both: yes

hardwareversion: 10

[chafey]

I have this issue and called into vmware tech support.  They seemed to be aware of the issue and walked me through reinstallation of vmware.  Reinstallation did seem to help, but it is not completely fixed.  If I leave the vm running and go do some serious work in mac os x, the vm becomes so slow that is unusable.  When this happens, I normally have to do a forced shutdown because a normal shutdown takes forever (the longest i have waited was 30 minutes - and it felt like it was maybe 5% of the way through shutdown).  This problem never happened under mountain lion so the problem is definitely related to mavericks.  I really wish vmWare would be more open with what they know about this and what (if any) progress they are making towards a resolution.  As it is now, the product is not working properly and I am tempted to either downgrade back to mountain lion or give parallels a try.

[Martin_59]

still the same here, waiting for a solution

[chafey]

I rebuilt a new VM and it still had the same problem.  Was about to downgrade to mountain lion but I decided to give parallels a try first.  Parallels works flawlessly and even seems a bit faster too.  Unfortunately I have real work that I need to do and can't mess around with this anymore.  Switching to parallels, hopefully vmware can get this issue fixed someday.

[Martin_59]

apparently this problem is not very common - nearly no threads like this one here.

how did you move to parallels? windows start from scratch - or did you convert the vmware to parallels somehow ... ? saw some hints on googling

[chafey]

Yes, unfortunately the problem doesn't seem to be that common although I suspect vmWare is aware of it based on my discussion with the support person.  It might be specific to my hardware - I am using an early 2011 13" MBP 2.3 GHz Core i5 upgraded to third party 8GB RAM and a third party SSD.  I doubt the upgraded RAM or SSD has anything to do with it since vmWare fusion worked fine on this exact same hardware in Mountain Lion.  Parallels does have some PC migration functionality but I didn't try to use it because I wanted a "fresh start" to eliminate any problems related to the conversion.

[Martin_59]

MacBook Pro 15"

Retina, Mid 2012

2,6 GHz Intel Core i7

VMWare Fusion 6.0.2 was out on Nov 5, 2013 - see:

VMware Fusion Documentation

6.0 on Sep 03

6.0.1 on Sep 24

I do not believe I have the problem since two months ... maybe a windows patch brought the problem ... ?

or maybe mavericks 10.9.1 Dec 16, 2013

So I plan to bear it until hopefully 6.0.3 heals it - or mavericks 10.9.2 which will be out the next days

suspicious:

sometimes I see within Finder (also mini finder within programs) the "spinning beach ball of death"

finder sometimes behaves sticky which I never saw before.

"Never" means since 2004

yes I repaired permissions :smileycool:

[Martin_59]

http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=80301&p=306415#p306415

maybe cloud station from sinology is the problem?

Now I have a haswell macbook pro, no problems with vmware fusion ... but the finder problem persists - until I put cloud station to sleep