I'm running a Dell E6400 dual-core laptop with 8 GB RAM with a Windows 7 64 bit Professional as the Host OS. It is fully patched. VMware Workstation 7 is installed. Running multiple Windows XP SP3 virtual machines and all are configured well within my RAM and core/processor limitations.
I'm getting frequent app hangs for my VM's, although they are transient. They usually last 5-10 seconds. I have adjusted every setting that I know of to try to discover the problem, but to no avail. It does not matter if I have only one VM open or several.
The app hang is reported by the Host OS, but the VM's do not crash, they just pause and it is back to business as normal. There is nothing specific about what I'm doing when this occurs, and it is totally random.
Is anyone else having this problem? I really need a solution because it has become very tiresome!
I was able to capture the error from Windows...
Description:
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: vmware.exe
Application Version: 7.0.0.9911
Application Timestamp: 4ae04519
Hang Signature: 6622
Hang Type: 0
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: 66226dae33e35cd83ccffcf20bd92934
Additional Hang Signature 2: 9198
Additional Hang Signature 3: 919873aec2a79dbd2cab3906602078eb
Additional Hang Signature 4: 6622
Additional Hang Signature 5: 66226dae33e35cd83ccffcf20bd92934
Additional Hang Signature 6: 9198
Additional Hang Signature 7: 919873aec2a79dbd2cab3906602078eb
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Message was edited by: newlvgeek
FYI - I had the same problem but now its gone. I had been running my VM's on a WD 500 GB Blue external drive, then I switched over to using a OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. Now my VM runs perfectly smooth with no hangs. I suspect then the hangs are due to the HD freezing, maybe some kind of idle sleeping or I am not sure.