Yeah, that's the big problem with vm fusion. It slows things down majorly.
I've got a windows 7 and an xp vm fusion machine setup and they are crazyily slow. I do have a virtual box windows 7 machine as well and it's a lot faster just wish vb was more accessible. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John J Herzog Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 8:57 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: need help: windows 7 very sluggish in fusion Hi listers, I'm having problems running windows 7 under vmware fusion 3.0.1, the latest version. Specifically, when it's running, windows 7 slows my mac down considerably. My mac is a 2.4 GHZ core2 duo from 2008 with 2 gigs of ram. Even with a gig of ram allocated to each system, the performance on both the mac and windows is very slow. Alex starts breaking up, and it takes much longer to load applications or even web sites. Also, I have noticed that my fan kicks on a lot more often, even when doing something simple in windows like working with a word document or opening an excel file. What can I do to speed up windows 7, which seems quite bloated to me? I've already disabled nonsense like system restore, arrow effects, 3d graphics optimization in fusion, and file indexing. Note, even when I allow the machine to use 2 processor cores, it seems rather sluggish. Any suggestions? Or given my machine's configuration, should I just stick with XP, which is only a temporary solution, as it will be obsolete in a year or two? Thanks, John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
