Excessive disk I/O on .vmdk file

[Quello]

I am running VMWare Workstation 7 on a Windows 7 64-bit host.

My virtual machine is running extremely slowly because of constant i/o activity on the host.

The proccess that is causing the high i/o is vmware-vmx.exe and it is doing it on one of the virtual machines' .vmdk files.

Could someone help to see why this is so?

Thank you

[elgreco81]

Hi,

Is your VM swapping to it's virtual memory file? That could be one of the reasons for high I/O. You could use systernals tools to see which process is causing the high IOs inside your virtual machine.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123828(v=exchg.65).aspx

Regards,

elgreco81

[Quello]

Thanks for your reply elgreco81,

As mentioned in my original question, the process causing the high i/o is the vmware-vmx.exe and it is accessing one of the virtual machines .vmdk files.

[elgreco81]

Hi,

"vmware-vmx.exe" is a process that runs for every VM that you have powered on.

If your host is causing high IO with that process, it most likely means that your VM is having high IOs. To analyze the reason why your VM is having high IO activity, you should try to find the process within your VM that is causing it and that's what I've tried to point with my answer...with some english limitations . Again, I would try to first see if your VM is internally swapping to it's "pagefile.sys".

Regards!!!

elgreco81