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Extensive use of HDD after VmWare Player virtual machine is closed
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Mar 15, 20265980 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
Each time I close virtual machine in VmWare Player I see extensive use of HDD in my system. Basically, whole system becomes unresponsive for about 5-7 minutes. Host system is Windows 7 Utimate x64 SP1 with 6 GB of memory, i3-M350 processor. Virtual machine is Windows XP SP3 x86 (2GB of memory alloc…
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Fix for: Extensive use of HDD after VmWare Player virtual machine is closed
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If the virtual machine state is saved (virtual machine suspended instead of fully shutting it down), the contents of it's memory are persisted on disk. This tends to be rather IO heavy and take some minutes (unless you have an SSD or fast RAID).
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