poor windows virtual machine performance

[OogyWaWa]

got windows 7 x64 and installed windows VM. i've got a win7 32bit VM installed, but the performance is terrible. it recognizes the processor as 6mhz... it is particularly slow when installing stuff

host:
3.4ghz phenom II w/ AMD-V enabled
8gb ddr3
dual ssd in raid 0
VMs run on a 2tb HDD
win7 x64

guest:
win7 x32
2gb ram
expandable file system
processor?? can you not change this in winVM? i know in VMware you can set number of cores, etc...

should i just trash it and go back to VMware?

 

[OogyWaWa]

i decided to install vmware workstation 7 (trial) and see how it worked. it is now obvious MS still sucks at VMs for desktops... VMware can use all 4 cores, all the mem i want, and its fast as hell. I'm getting near native performance. I'm sure if i moved my VM to my SSDs it would be a lot quicker, but I'm happy. Time to get rid of windows VM 😛

 

[0roo0roo]

try virtual box?
which windows version are u vm?

 

[OogyWaWa]

try virtual box?
which windows version are u vm?

thought about VB but vmware workstation seems to have more going for it.

my host is win7 x64, my guest is also win7 x64 now that i'm on VMware

 

[Nothinman]

I wouldn't be surprised if VMware was faster than VPC, but not to the extent that you seem to be seeing.

As for Virtual Box, I'd give it a try since VMware Workstation is also a lot more expensive. Or VMware Server even, which is also free but doesn't have all of the same features as Workstation.

 

[MINIATUS]

I use virtual box at school and Im runninng server2003 and 3 vista clients in vitual mode. I tried some of the other but they seem to have a problem dealing with this many virtual machines.

Alan