Evaluating VMWare to set up VM for legacy software maintenance. Set up a virtual machine, installed Windows 7 SP1 32-bit, everything works fine. Once started, performance is excellent. The...
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Evaluating VMWare to set up VM for legacy software maintenance. Set up a virtual machine, installed Windows 7 SP1 32-bit, everything works fine. Once started, performance is excellent. The symptom is that when starting the VM, either from fresh boot or suspend, there is a significant delay before the VMware power on/startup screen appears. Once it appears, the OS starts booting (or the suspend state is resumed) quickly and performance is normal after that. During the startup delay, the entire system is unresponsive, both host and guest OS. See the the log excerpt below at time 09:54:28.619 where the delay occurs followed by the entry for time 09:55:11.625 when startup resumes, a 43 second delay during which nothing seems to happen and the system is unresponsive. After that, everything is fast. Any ideas or suggestions? More info... VMware Player version 6.0.1 build-1379776 Host PC: Dell Optiplex, Intel Core2 Quad PU Q9650 3.00GHz Installed memory: 4.00GB (3.25 GB usable) Boot disk C: Intel SSD, 180GB (where VMware is installed) Data disk F: Seagate 1TB (where the VM resides) Host OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit Guest OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit vmware.log excerpt: 2014-02-19T09:54:28.619-05:00| vmx| I120: VMMEM: Initial Reservation: 1442MB (MainMem=1024MB) 2014-02-19T09:54:28.619-05:00| vmx| I120: MemSched_PowerOn: balloon minGuestSize 104857 (80% of min required size 131072) 2014-02-19T09:54:28.619-05:00| vmx| I120: MemSched: reserved mem (in MB) min 128 max 2493 recommended 2493 2014-02-19T09:54:28.619-05:00| vmx| I120: PShare: enabled 1 adaptive 1 scanRate [16, 400] 2014-02-19T09:54:28.619-05:00| vmx| I120: MemSched: pg 590258 np 35890 anon 5159 mem 262144 2014-02-19T09:55:11.625-05:00| vmx| I120: MemSched: numvm 1 locked pages: num 0 max 605661 2014-02-19T09:55:11.626-05:00| vmx| I120: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 638514 config 638208 dynam 613853 2014-02-19T09:55:11.626-05:00| vmx| I120: MemSched: minmempct 50 minalloc 0 admitted 1 2014-02-19T09:55:11.626-05:00| vmx| W110: NUMA: automatic VM sizing request ignored vm config (.vmx) file: .encoding = "windows-1252" config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "10" scsi0.present = "TRUE" scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068" sata0.present = "TRUE" memsize = "1024" mem.hotadd = "TRUE" scsi0:0.present = "TRUE" scsi0:0.fileName = "BCDEVVM.vmdk" sata0:1.present = "TRUE" sata0:1.fileName = "E:" sata0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" ethernet0.present = "TRUE" ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged" ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE" ethernet0.addressType = "generated" usb.present = "TRUE" ehci.present = "TRUE" ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35" sound.present = "TRUE" sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio" sound.fileName = "Speakers (SoundMAX Integrated D" sound.autodetect = "FALSE" mks.enable3d = "TRUE" serial0.present = "TRUE" serial0.fileType = "thinprint" pciBridge0.present = "TRUE" pciBridge4.present = "TRUE" pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge4.functions = "8" pciBridge5.present = "TRUE" pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge5.functions = "8" pciBridge6.present = "TRUE" pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge6.functions = "8" pciBridge7.present = "TRUE" pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge7.functions = "8" vmci0.present = "TRUE" hpet0.present = "TRUE" usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "FALSE" displayName = "BCDEVVM" guestOS = "windows7" nvram = "BCDEVVM.nvram" virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted" gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "FALSE" powerType.powerOff = "soft" powerType.powerOn = "soft" powerType.suspend = "soft" powerType.reset = "soft" extendedConfigFile = "BCDEVVM.vmxf" gui.lastPoweredViewMode = "fullscreen" uuid.bios = "56 4d d2 32 bb c9 b7 bd-f2 3c d2 46 59 e6 38 e3" uuid.location = "56 4d d2 32 bb c9 b7 bd-f2 3c d2 46 59 e6 38 e3" replay.supported = "FALSE" replay.filename = "" scsi0:0.redo = "" pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17" pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21" pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22" pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23" pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24" scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160" usb.pciSlotNumber = "32" ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33" sound.pciSlotNumber = "34" vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36" sata0.pciSlotNumber = "37" scsi0.sasWWID = "50 05 05 62 bb c9 b7 b0" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0C:29:E6:38:E3" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" vmci0.id = "1508260067" vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728" cleanShutdown = "TRUE" softPowerOff = "TRUE" usb:1.speed = "2" usb:1.present = "TRUE" usb:1.deviceType = "hub" usb:1.port = "1" usb:1.parent = "-1" sata0:1.autodetect = "FALSE" tools.syncTime = "FALSE" unity.wasCapable = "FALSE" tools.remindInstall = "FALSE" toolsInstallManager.updateCounter = "1" checkpoint.vmState = "" monitor.virtual_mmu = "automatic" monitor.virtual_exec = "automatic" usb:0.present = "TRUE" usb:0.deviceType = "hid" usb:0.port = "0" usb:0.parent = "-1" usb.generic.autoconnect = "FALSE" serial1.present = "TRUE" serial1.fileName = "COM1" floppy0.present = "FALSE"