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I'm working on vmware image files. My computer always load hard disk and vmware works very slow at the same time.
Guest OS: Windows XP SP2
Host OS: Windows XP SP2
Is there any way can improve the performance?
VMware Workstation has terrible performance on local hard disk
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From your question it sounds like the guest OS hard drive is an image file on the host OS. VmWare has the ability to write directly to a partition instead of an image file. That should speed up the hard drive access for the Guest OS.
Also as other comments suggested, increase the RAM on your computer, getting a faster hard drive (higher RPMs) should also help out.
Nick
Posted 2010-05-31T04:03:42.700
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1Do you have enough system resources allocated to your VMs?
Does your CPU have support for Virtual Machines (and is that support enabled in bios?) – Alan – 2010-05-31T04:07:35.057
How much memory does your guest operating system have? As a percentage of your total memory. – None – 2010-05-31T04:08:25.763
... and how much memory does the HOST OS (XP) have? – Chris_K – 2010-05-31T04:34:07.340