How long sdould it take to restore a paused VM?

[Tony_Cappellini]

Workstation 6.04

Host OS, XP, SP2

Guest Fc8 - 6GB virtual disk

Host Machine 2 .1 Ghz CPU, 2GB ram, 120 GB hd (not even close to 1/4 full)

When I suspend FC8, then restore it, it takes over 1 minute unil the VM is 100% restored.

Is this normal for this fast of a machine?

[Peter_vm]

Yes, it could be normal. Watch disk activity fhen that happens.

[virtual-sa]

Yes, it's having to transfer the data saved to a file back into memory...

[Tony_Cappellini]

It doesn't seem that A 600MB VM sshould take over a minute- espcially on a 2.1Ghz system, with 2Gb of ram.

If a VM wasseveral gigabytes, then yes, I could possibly see that.

[Peter_vm]

VMware performs some disk operations very slowly. Like creation of virtual disk files (especially large ones) can take ages.

Host would normally write the whole content of those files a magnitude times faster. That has been observed.

Did you monitor host storage system performance during that time?

[Tony_Cappellini]

No, but I will the next time.

I agree- Vmware's disk operations take a long time. Installing XP as a guest takes almost twice as long as installing it on the host only.

It's probably due to the fact that the VM disk is just a huge file.

If I had an external drive, that might speed up some operations, but that's not feasible on a laptop.