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Gonzouk
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Enthusiast
‎10-19-2010 12:13 AM

Win XP P to V to slow

Hello,

I have just virtualised a WinXP Pro PC. The physical PC itself runs fine, but the virualised version is terrible, it's CPU seems to be always at 100%, but them memory is low. In task manager it seems to be a process called svhost.exe.

I have had to give it 2 CPU's to be able to do anything on it and this is more than some of our servers :S

Does XP have any know issues in ESXi 4.1?

Thanks

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AndreTheGiant
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Immortal
‎10-19-2010 12:18 AM

I do not see any issue (and on View I use XP with 512 RAM and 1 vCPU).

Maybe your XP was the result of a P2V?

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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Gonzouk
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Enthusiast
‎10-19-2010 12:25 AM

Perhaps I should just build an XP VM from scratch, rather than P to V, so much customised software on this physical PC though Smiley Sad

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AndreTheGiant
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Immortal
‎10-19-2010 12:30 AM

The problem is not related only to the software, but to also all the drivers.

For this reason could be better make a clean VM instead of P2V.

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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