I'm using VMWare fusion 1.1 with XP Pro SP2 and I just wondered what settings do you normally use to maximize performance?
For example, enabling the DirectX 9 support raises the CPU usage for me, but that's pretty obvious. A more subtle thing is that if I enable two virtual processors the CPU usage also raises quite substantially even when I'm not running cpu-intensive apps. Is it supposed to be like that? (I've run into this issue both on 1.0 and 1.1)
What's the amount of ram you normally dedicate to the VM(I have 4gb overall and 1gb given winxp now). Any performance hit/gain here?
Any comments welcome
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I gave XP 1.5GB of ram, and never see CPU usage hit 10% on idle. Keep in mind I also have an Arch Linux vm running too, but that's built for a minimal footprint.
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I don't use Dx9 in VMWare Fusion, since it works only with XP and I use Vista. But I gave it 2gb, 2 virtual cpus. Works very nicely, no visual slow down whatsoever - running in full screen mode on one of my spaces screens. Applications I run are mostly Visual Studio 2005/2008. I found that running Fusion in unity mode sometimes can be choppy.
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i give xp pro 1gb, seems happy. i only use vs2005 though, no need for more ram.
i am running parallels though
VMWare Fusion performance
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