Hello everyone. This is my first post here. I'm hoping someone can provide some guidance. I purchased a Unibody MacBook last October. Shortly after that, I installed VMWare Fusion 2.0 with Windows XP Home as the guest operating system. Since my install, Windows XP has always run very slow. I upgraded to 2.0.1 when it became available and noticed no improvements.
My Set-up:
Unibody Macbook with Mac OS X 10.5.6
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB Ram
160 GB Hard Drive
VMWare Fusion 2.0.1
Windows XP Home SP3
1 Virtual Processor
1 GB RAM
3D Graphics Accellaration on
40 GB Allocated for virtual Machine Hard Drive, SPlit into 2 GB Files
1 shared folder (between OS's)
The problems I have been experiencing are all on the Windows side. My Mac OS has been fine. What I have been experiencing is just generally VERY slow response on virtually all activities in Windows. I have noticed it most when switching between different windows and different programs while in Windows XP, when opening or saving files, java-based apps run extremely slow, Flash will work fine for a while and then slow to a crawl. My typical use is nothing too crazy. In general I have Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel, and maybe one or two other business-related programs open. I'm not doing any gaming, video work, image work, or anything else that should cause a slow down.
Any ideas anyone might have would be greatly appreciated. If you need further information to help make a diagnosis, please let me know.
What I find so strange is I have a very similar set-up on my iMac at home, and Windows has always operated flawlessly, just as if it were running on a dedicated Windows PC.
Thanks for your help!
