Copying file via shared folder is very slow

[Terry_Law]

Dear All,

Does any one use VMware 5.5 on Vista now?

My host is a vista home premium, and windows 2000 is installed as guest.

When I open a shared folder to connect my guest windows, it works fine and seems no problem. However, the copying speed is very slow about 150KB/sec, it is not acceptable for huge files copying. I tried this operation on the other host, it will be very fast than this. Should I configure any thing to solve this issue? Please give me some suggestion, thanks.

[Liz]

I cant say I found it that slow with 5.5, there are some things that would slow it down, such as, if you're reading the file from the same disk the vm is on.

Out of interest, have you tried making a share on the host (rather than using shared folders) and see if the speed is any different that way?

One thing I did, depending on what you're trying to achieve was use the vmware-mount utility, while the box was off, and copying the files in using that. I got great speed then.

[Terry_Law]

Thanks, the shared folder is fast than share from network

[nextech]

Terry Law,

I had a similar problem with extremely slow shared folders, from my experience the problem seems to be

related to "Large Send Offload" being enabled on the host network

adapter. This seems to be very common among machines with an

Intel-based gigabit ethernet adapter in the host machine. It seems to

be common on Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux users that all seem to

have a Gigabit Ethernet adapter (usually an Intel 1000 based adapter)

or they have a network adapter that supports Large Send Offload, and

for some reason this seems to be enabled by default, and it seems to

cause problems with VMWare products. I posted the correct solution to

this problem with detailed instructions here:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1191790#1191790

I hope this helps, I believe this should solve your problem. Please

close this thread out, and mark it as "Answered" and If you find

this answer helpful, please do take the time to award me the "Correct Answer" points.

Thank-you!

Mark