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OK, never mind. My apologies for wasting everyone's time. I installed the VMware Player on a notebook with a Core I-5 3320M @ 2.60 GHz, 8GB RAM (7.7 GB usable) and and SSD. I copied the VM ... See more...
OK, never mind. My apologies for wasting everyone's time. I installed the VMware Player on a notebook with a Core I-5 3320M @ 2.60 GHz, 8GB RAM (7.7 GB usable) and and SSD. I copied the VM from the desktop to the notebook. The VM launches and starts booting the guest OS almost instantaneously, and the OS boots in about 15 seconds to the login prompt. I am now a happy camper, and will be a much happier camper when I get my new desktop for this project. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and help.
Yes, sorry about the cross posting. Thought I searched...
Thanks for the suggestion. I checked to make sure there was no ISO file attached. I have the CD mapped to the host physical CD and there's no CD mounted. I also excluded the VM folders and su... See more...
Thanks for the suggestion. I checked to make sure there was no ISO file attached. I have the CD mapped to the host physical CD and there's no CD mounted. I also excluded the VM folders and subfolders from Norton virus scanner. I also turned off the virus scanner and firewall. None of that helped. I purchased a license, same result. I called support, and they said this is expected behavior and there is no problem. When running a VM under Player Plus (version 6), I get a black screen for about 42 to 43 seconds, the entire system is slow and unresponsive, then the VMware "power on" screen appears briefly and the OS starts booting. After that it is very fast. Running a similar VM using Windows 7 Virtual PC takes about six seconds to begin loading the OS. Is the VMware startup delay indeed normal? I am curious how long it takes for others to start a VM, from the time you start the VM until the OS starts to load?
That was a different person, I think. But sounds like we are having a similar problem.
Thanks. Getting a new machine for this project and some other stuff with Windows 64-bit and 24GB. Hopefully that will help, will see what happens.
Having same issue: VM startup slow, long delay before guest OS starts booting
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... See more...
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"