Vmware is given only 20 MB in Mac osx and is super slow

[khizarnaeem]

i'm using vmware fusion 6 to run windows 7 on mac osx mavericks. its super slow and i cant do anything. i have assigned 2 cores to my virtual machine and 2 gb memory. its ran smoothly with these settings on osx lion. but now nothing seem to work. can someone solve my problem? here are 2 pics which might help you understand my problem.

Thanks in advance

[ShaddamIV]

The Fusion application is more or less the "shell" for the various VM processes. If you go to the Energy tab, and open (click on triangle) the Fusion entry, you'll see some of the other guys.

You're also running the VM with 2 GB on a 4 GB Mac, that might be a little hard on the Mac if it's got a hard disk and no SSD, in particular as you have other apps open (Skype, Spotify, Mail, Safari etc).

You may also want to update to Fusion 6.0.2 (if not already done) and see whether that helps.

Good luck!

[Coach300]

I'm going to concur. There is a reason that Fusion recommends 1GB RAM for the guest OS, and it's that there needs to be RAM to run the OS, Fusion itself, and everything else on the Mac.

In a somewhat different scenario, I had Windows crash (in Fusion 5) until I brought the memory setting all the way down to the recommended minimum, which was the same setting as recommended here. I couldn't even use 1.1 GB.

[design1010]

I'm experiencing the same slowdown on my MacBook Pro retina, 8GB RAM 250GB SSD running Mavericks. My VM is CentOS which isn't nearly as memory intensive as Windows 8. When I try running PHP commands from a terminal window, it takes forever to finish. I've given my VM the recommended 1GB of RAM and have tried 1 and 2 cores, which doesn't seem top make a difference. I have the exact same setup on my iMac, which is still on Mountain Lion, and it's super fast.

I was doing all of this using Fusion 5, so upgraded the MacBook to the Fusion 6 trial, and upgraded my VM as suggested and it's equally as slow.

[koi]

Have you disabled App Nap for Fusion? I've read this can cause performance problems on Mavericks.Re: App Nap core function in OS X Mavericks

[design1010]

Yes. I was reading that as well. So I have disabled it. I did a full shutdown/reboot of everything and it's still just as slow.