maflynn
May 15th, 2009, 07:35 AM
I'm having performance issues with one of my VMs. I set this one up a little different so in one sense its no surprise that I'm having "issues"
I'm running kubuntu 9.04 (32bit), on a MacBook Pro with 4 gig of ram. Because I have VMware fusion on my OSX partition and a winxp VM on that partition, I copied that to my ubuntu partition and created a new VM used the option to use an existing vmdk (which I then pointed to that winxp.vmdk).
Booting up was painfully slow, probably 4x slower then the fresh winxp vm I created. Interacting with guest OS was probably slower about 20-30%. I have it 512meg, initially and when I get home I'll give it a gig to see if that fixes it but swapping wasn't an issue, and I wasn't running anything. IE too forever to boot up. By contrast the new VM was snappy and IE came right up and I while I had given that a bit more ram - 768meg it wasn't enough to cause the difference IMO.
Could there be a difference in the vmdk file formats between vmware fusion and vmware server? Also when I initially setup the winxp vm in vmware fusion, I used the defaults which I believe is auto grow, and use 2 gig files. That's a different default to what I see in vmware server (auto grow but don't use 2 gig files)
Any advice, the advantage of using the exiting VM is obvious, I don't need to spend a whole night downloading all of the updates M$ pukes out and then load the handful of applications I need.
Any suggestions?
I'm running kubuntu 9.04 (32bit), on a MacBook Pro with 4 gig of ram. Because I have VMware fusion on my OSX partition and a winxp VM on that partition, I copied that to my ubuntu partition and created a new VM used the option to use an existing vmdk (which I then pointed to that winxp.vmdk).
Booting up was painfully slow, probably 4x slower then the fresh winxp vm I created. Interacting with guest OS was probably slower about 20-30%. I have it 512meg, initially and when I get home I'll give it a gig to see if that fixes it but swapping wasn't an issue, and I wasn't running anything. IE too forever to boot up. By contrast the new VM was snappy and IE came right up and I while I had given that a bit more ram - 768meg it wasn't enough to cause the difference IMO.
Could there be a difference in the vmdk file formats between vmware fusion and vmware server? Also when I initially setup the winxp vm in vmware fusion, I used the defaults which I believe is auto grow, and use 2 gig files. That's a different default to what I see in vmware server (auto grow but don't use 2 gig files)
Any advice, the advantage of using the exiting VM is obvious, I don't need to spend a whole night downloading all of the updates M$ pukes out and then load the handful of applications I need.
Any suggestions?