S L O W really slow vm

[Dragonz]

So im new to vm ive downloaded it and installed windows xp sp3 on it.Im hosting on a windows 7 x64 and it really lags.

I have no idea why my pc specs should be allright

Inter dual code 2.6ghz

Nvidea 8600gts

4gb ram

I allocated 1 cpu and 512md ram do my windows partition and it lags badly ive tried giving it 2 cpus and getting it more ram put it lags like hell and cant run a game.

When i look at my cpu usage in task manager i see it going from 0% to 27% to 100% and it keeps on changing/

How could i fix all this i want to run vmware badly

[Scissor]

Please attach the vmware.log file from the directory containing your Guest.

[HughBorg707]

Also you didn't mention what else is running on your host machine. Turn off any other resource hungry services and programs.

[a_p_]

Double check you selected the correct "Windows XP" (Home/Professional/...) as the OS for the VM (verify via "Edit Settings")

Did you install VMware tools on the VM? If not, it's now the time to do it!

If yes, check the physical RAM you allow VMware Workstation to use.

Select menu item "Edit" --> "Preferences" --> Tab "Memory"

With 4GB of RAM, I would set the reservation of 2 GB.

For your XP-VM use 1 vCPU and allow 1GB RAM.

Make sure XP uses the correct single processor HAL. This may have changed with adding a second vCPU (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283/en-us)

André

[Dragonz]

no hungering programs are running on host.

I also have have my windows xp to winxp proffesional which is my guest os everthing there should be right

I also have vm tools installed

when i boot it also tells me drive A: is ready or not ready or opened

Theres also when i try to run a game my screen goes very little and gets in the center and it only goes white

[Dragonz]

ill get you that in a sec hope that helps

here it is i hope thats what your looking for

http://pastebin.com/wyH6cbQH

changed it to the right one

[continuum]

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Hi

thats the log file for the GUI - please post the vmware.log from the directory of the VM

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[Dragonz]

is this it http://pastebin.com/Z7qeqR2d

?

[continuum]

yes - thats the right one

there is nothing critical wrong in your setup of this VM

but I would suggest to try the following

add the line

mainmem.useNamedFile = "false"

to the vmx-file.

replace the line

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

with

ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"

also configure the memory preferences ...

open menu > edit > preferences > memory

and check the box "Fit all memory ..."

You use a snapshot ... thats not good for performance.

Do you really need it ?




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[Dragonz]

ok but how do i remove snapshot

[continuum]

open snapshotmanager - high light the snapshot and click delete.

If you never used this before - read the help first

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[Dragonz]

vmware-wmx.exe - driver not ready

the device is not ready for use; its foor may be open please check drive A: and make sure theat a disk is inserted and the drive door is closed

[Dragonz]

this host is not capable of hardware virtualization

usingsoftware virtualization with software MMU

[continuum]

and ? - why do you post that ?

the drive not ready message is caused because you have a floppy-drive in the VM while your host semms to have no such device.

Simply remove the floppy from the VM

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[Dragonz]

why i post that?

because im new to vm and i though this could be helpfull rather try then do nothing

[golddiggie]

Make sure your AV software is not allowed to scan the directory used for the VM's. Set that entire directory (and subfolders) as an exclusion from all scans.

Also, I wouldn't used XP SP3, since you're having performance issues. Go back to XP SP2 and see how that performs. I would also give it 1GB of RAM, but keep the vCPU to 1. While XP can run on 512MB of memory (in both physical and virtual systems) it performs better with 1GB.

I would also remove the floppy drive from the VM configuration, as already mentioned. How large is the virtual hard drive for the XP system?

VMware VCP4

Consider awarding points for "helpful" and/or "correct" answers.

[continuum]

golddiggie

you can look up the size of the virtual disks in the log - see the line

Apr 10 13:18:17.086: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : Opened 'C:\Users\Jessy\Documents\Virtual Machines\Windows XP Professional\Windows XP Professional.vmdk' (0xe): monolithicSparse, 16777216 sectors / 8 GB.




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[Dragonz]

my hard drive for xp is 24 gigs

thats alot i think you solved most of my problem

[a_p_]

this host is not capable of hardware virtualization

usingsoftware virtualization with software MMU

You may take a look into the host's BIOS and find out if it has the option to enable "VT" (aka Intel Virtualization Technology)

If so enable it.

André

[continuum]

my hard drive for xp is 24 gigs

are you sure ? - the vmware.log you posted says the virtual disk is 8 Gb only.

Please post a filelisting of the VM directory which includes size.

Maybe you have several very large snapshots - which would explain why the VM is slow




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