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I'm facing a big issue when I start my windows virtual machine. I noticed that there are a heavy disk usage, and in consequence the host desktop os is freezing and I'm not able to get back "commands".
Host OS: debian 7.2
Here is my Harware config (Asus k55vd):
i7 2nd Gen (8 threads), 8 Gb ram 750 Disk
The VM config (running windows 7):
1 Processors (2threads), 2 Gb Ram.
Recently I switched to deadline IO Scheduler, it seems a little bit more fast (I'm now able to execute more than 1 application on the VM)
Maybe it's due to my HW, on my old laptop (HP, Core2Duo, 3Gb Ram) every thing was fine I don't know why this is not working well on my new laptop.
Is there any other configuration that I can do to my host OS to gain more performance ?
Thank you.
[EDIT] Added some details
rednaks
Posted 2014-01-19T12:34:01.720
Reputation: 101
What virtualisation solution are you using ? KVM ? Virtualbox ? – Lawrence – 2014-01-19T12:55:00.997
Ye, we need to know more information than this to help you out... what Hypervisor are you using, KVM, Virtual Box, VMPlayer, Hyper-V? What disk set up are you using, split or single, thin or fat? What Host OS are you using and also what Guest OS?
EDIT - Just noticed that the tag linux and the bit about deadline, I dont know much about linux VM's. Will leave for the *nix bods... :) – leinad13 – 2014-01-19T13:23:34.973
I'm using VMWare hypervisor with debian as Host OS. didn't get your question about the disk – rednaks – 2014-01-19T14:58:32.833