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Windows 7 kills VMWare performance by disk caching?

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Mar 15, 202654026 views
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We're running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit SP1 on Dell Precision T3500's (Xeon E5630 @ 2.53GHz, 4GB of RAM). On top of this is VMWare Workstation 7.1.4, up to date. Running in a VM is Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3. VMWare is configured to allocate 2GB of RAM for the guest. Performing nearly any…

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See the last entry here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008885 I have seen huge improvements to VM performance after making this change. Just make sure you have enough memory on your hos…

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