> Have you ninstalled the VMAdditions? This is the first thing to speed up
> the guest.
>
> Giving the guest machine 1Gb might be starving the host machine. Vista
> likes a lot of memory. Try reducing the guest to 512 or 768 M.
>
> What is compressed, the VHD for the guest machine or your whole disk on
> the host? Neither of these hings should slow down the guest machine much.
>

>I have a lenovo notebook with Vista Business and 2Gb Ram
> I try to instal a Virtual machine with XP SP2 with 1Gb ram
> I have shared a directory on vista host SO and i use this files on the
> guest Xp SO
> but all the application are terrible slow...
> For example scrolling text page on text editor very very slow??
> On the task manager Xp SO the CPU is allways on 100%
>
> I have tryed to follow all the tips that i have found on microsoft
> support.... disable audio, change the default NAT with a virtal
> lancard "Backloop" etc,etc....
> But all is extreamply slow.
>
> The only one thing i want to try is to change the hard drive from
> compress mode actually 4Gb to big mode 65Gb, but now i haven't the
> space.
>
> Any idea?
> thanks Rmartin
>

> I have a lenovo notebook with Vista Business and 2Gb Ram
> I try to instal a Virtual machine with XP SP2 with 1Gb ram
> I have shared a directory on vista host SO and i use this files on the
> guest Xp SO
> but all the application are terrible slow...
> For example scrolling text page on text editor very very slow??
> On the task manager Xp SO the CPU is allways on 100%
>
> I have tryed to follow all the tips that i have found on microsoft
> support.... disable audio, change the default NAT with a virtal
> lancard "Backloop" etc,etc....
> But all is extreamply slow.
>
> The only one thing i want to try is to change the hard drive from
> compress mode actually 4Gb to big mode 65Gb, but now i haven't the
> space.
>
> Any idea?
> thanks Rmartin

> I have a lenovo notebook with Vista Business and 2Gb Ram
> I try to instal a Virtual machine with XP SP2 with 1Gb ram
> I have shared a directory on vista host SO and i use this files on the
> guest Xp SO
> but all the application are terrible slow...
> For example scrolling text page on text editor very very slow??
> On the task manager Xp SO the CPU is allways on 100%
>
> I have tryed to follow all the tips that i have found on microsoft
> support.... disable audio, change the default NAT with a virtal
> lancard "Backloop" etc,etc....
> But all is extreamply slow.
>
> The only one thing i want to try is to change the hard drive from
> compress mode actually 4Gb to big mode 65Gb, but now i haven't the
> space.
>
> Any idea?
> thanks Rmartin

> > I have a lenovo notebook with Vista Business and 2Gb Ram
> > I try to instal a Virtual machine with XP SP2 with 1Gb ram
> > I have shared a directory on vista host SO and i use this files on the
> > guest Xp SO
> > but all the application are terrible slow...
> > For example =A0scrolling text page on text editor very very slow??
> > On the task manager Xp SO =A0the CPU is allways on 100%
>
> > I have tryed to follow all the tips that i have found on microsoft
> > support.... disable audio, change the default NAT with a virtal
> > lancard "Backloop" etc,etc....
> > But all is extreamply slow.
>
> > The only one thing i want to try is to change the hard drive from
> > compress mode actually 4Gb to big mode 65Gb, but now i haven't the
> > space.
>
> > Any idea?
> > thanks Rmartin
>
> I have the same problem s Rmartin - anybody would suggest a solution?
>
> I have the following configuration:
>
> Host:
> Windows vista Business 64bit
> 4 GB Ram
>
> Guest:
> Windows Server 2008
> 2GB ram enabled
> VPC additions installed
>
> and the guest machine is terribly slow - it is kililng me!
>
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