Fan running high with VMFusion

[joseph.zimmer]

Is it normal for the fan to run at about 6500rpm when you first start up VMFusion? I run XP Pro and it does that for the first few minutes.

to be more accurate it kinda runs higher all the time

 

[Eidorian]

You're running an additional operating system and virtual machine on top of OS X. It's processor intensive at startup.

 

[joseph.zimmer]

I guess that would make sense right? haha

I was also wondering, i use istat pro andd it says "WindowsSer...." I was wondering if anyone knew what that meant... it runs at start up even when not running the virtual machine

 

[Eidorian]

It's the one of the graphical processes for OS X.

 

[pianoman]

in my Vista installation under Leopard, my fans usually run between 1000 and 2000 RPMs. even as i type this with Vista running, the fans are at 1050. i suppose it depends on what you're doing, too. i only have iTunes, iCal, Safari, and Fusion running right now, so my setup may be less processor-dependent than yours.