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Anyone have much experience with VMWare virtual machines?

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shmokes:
The host is Windows 8 RTM. It's pretty well spec'd.  Core 7 920 (first gen) at 2.67 GHz and 12 GB of RAM. The hard drive doesn't need defragged as the installation is only maybe a month old, clean. And the host doesn't experiencing any of this stuttering . . . only the VM. Also, it's worth noting, that the VM ran perfectly smooth at first and now it simply doesn't. Ever. The problem goes nonstop regardless of rebooting the host or VM. Also, the VM isn't running any software to speak of. I run it solely for VPN cos the network at work doesn't yet support VPN connections coming from a Windows 8 box.

I'm gonna check my BIOS in a few minutes for that setting MonMotha was talking about. Soon I'm gonna have to give it up and reinstall a new VM, but that was a good idea to grab a linux image to make sure it's not my VMWare that's bad.

MonMotha:
I guess it also goes without saying, but make sure hardware virtualization (VT-x on Intel) is enabled in your BIOS.  Some systems default it to off to prevent the hypothetical "hypervisor rootkit".  I dunno about VMWare, but Windows Virtual PC will drop back to full software emulation if hardware support isn't present, and that's REALLY slow.

kahlid74:

--- Quote from: shmokes on October 15, 2012, 08:48:55 pm ---The host is Windows 8 RTM. It's pretty well spec'd.  Core 7 920 (first gen) at 2.67 GHz and 12 GB of RAM. The hard drive doesn't need defragged as the installation is only maybe a month old, clean. And the host doesn't experiencing any of this stuttering . . . only the VM. Also, it's worth noting, that the VM ran perfectly smooth at first and now it simply doesn't. Ever. The problem goes nonstop regardless of rebooting the host or VM. Also, the VM isn't running any software to speak of. I run it solely for VPN cos the network at work doesn't yet support VPN connections coming from a Windows 8 box.

I'm gonna check my BIOS in a few minutes for that setting MonMotha was talking about. Soon I'm gonna have to give it up and reinstall a new VM, but that was a good idea to grab a linux image to make sure it's not my VMWare that's bad.

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You've installed the VMware drivers into the Windows 7 VM right?  I would try a Windows XP and a Linux VM and see how your system responds.  Make sure to install VMware drivers in both VMs.

ark_ader:

--- Quote ---The host is Windows 8 RTM
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There is your problem.

Downgrade to Windows 7.

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