Vmware Fusion really slows MBP even with 8GB Ram

btort1 · btort1 #1 (**permalink**)

04-27-2012, 05:27 PM

Ok I have a MBP Mid 2010 with VMware 3.0 and Windows 7 64bit is installed in my bootcamp.

I have set the settings to 2 processor cores and 5768gb memory. But for some reason it is very sluggish and not what I expected when I upgraded the ram.

The OS X part is not as sluggish as the virtual machine. Should I switch to parallels? I remember I tried it on my cousins Mac but it was very confusing. What can I do to speed things up?

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

04-27-2012, 08:38 PM

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Ok I have a MBP Mid 2010 with VMware 3.0 and Windows 7 64bit is installed in my bootcamp.

If I'm reading your post correctly, you're using your Boot Camp partition with Windows 7 as a virtual machine? In other words, you virtualized your Windows 7 partition? If that's true, then:

1. Virtualizing a Boot Camp partition does cause slow downs.

2. I don't believe VMWare 3 is optimized for 64 bit Windows. Upgrade to version 4.0 which is.

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Member Since: Mar 09, 2012 Posts: 11	04-27-2012, 05:27 PM Ok I have a MBP Mid 2010 with VMware 3.0 and Windows 7 64bit is installed in my bootcamp. I have set the settings to 2 processor cores and 5768gb memory. But for some reason it is very sluggish and not what I expected when I upgraded the ram. The OS X part is not as sluggish as the virtual machine. Should I switch to parallels? I remember I tried it on my cousins Mac but it was very confusing. What can I do to speed things up?
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