VMware Beta 2 - Insanely Slow Performance!

[m021478]

I have VMware Beta 2 installed on my MacPro (2x3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 16GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM) with a brand new installation of Windows XP Pro SP2 installed, and I have yet to install a single application in my VM, but the performance of the virtual machine is so incredibly slow and sluggish that I almost can't bare using it anymore!

When I say slow, I mean for example the mouse sometimes stutters when simply moving it across my screen, and clicking on a button like 'OK' or 'Save' pauses for a good 1-2 seconds before actually doing whatever it's supposed to...

I currently have VMware configured to use 2 Processors and 2048MB of RAM. My primary Mac hard drive that I am running the virtual machine from has over 100GB of free space...

What are some of the possible causes of such a tremendous performance slow-down such as the one I am experiencing, and how can I go about resolving the issue?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[ayeying]

I use windows vista on it and I have no lags.

 

[airjuggernaut]

go to settings, then video, and check "3D acceleration"

that should help speed things up quite a lot.

 

[XianPalin]

Do you have "Enable Debugging checks" checked in the preferences? That can slow it down a bit. If so, try unchecking it.

Also selecting "Optimize for virtual machine disk performance" should also help.

 

[m021478]

Unfortunately, "3D acceleration" and "Optimize for virtual machine disk performance" were both checked, and "Enable Debugging checks" was not checked!!

Go figure!

Any other thoughts?

 

[XianPalin]

I'm pretty sure VMWare automatically does this, but make sure you have the VMWare tools installed, that makes a pretty big difference with things.

If they are installed, maybe try uninstalling them and reinstalling and see if that does anything.