VMware XP Slow Boot

AndyC · 10 Mar 2007 at 11:22

Hi All,

Each time I install VMware on my XP Pro 1yr Laptop with 2GB of ram it takes almost 2 mins to boot from 30 secs,

Even reinstalled the OS x2 and it's the same, sure on the desktop before it wasn't this bad.

Trolled the internet and does appear to be a common issue but no real cure other than stopping the services.

Should I just use PC2007 instead, just like the feel of VM and my imagines are all VM,

Any ideas,

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2007 at 11:52

Have you tried running BootVis to see if that improves your start-up time?

wesley · 10 Mar 2007 at 11:53

i'm having same problem

marc2003 · 10 Mar 2007 at 12:05

virtual pc is crap. running anything intensive inside the vm makes my host unresponsive. it's awful tbh...

with regards to vmware, how do you have networking configured in your guests? if it's bridged, you can open the vmware network tool and delete both the virtual network cards, disable the vmware dhcp and nat services. that might help?

dirtydog · 10 Mar 2007 at 12:16

AndyC said:
Trolled the internet

lol.

Are you saying that your host OS takes longer to boot, once VMWare is installed?

Or are you saying that the guest OSes themselves are slow to boot, within the virtual machine?

The former I presume but some of the responses make me wonder if it is clear enough.

AndyC · 10 Mar 2007 at 16:52

Hi All,

Sorry its the base XP that VMware is installed on

, the images work just fine.

I've tried unticking briging but with no joy - from what I've read its something to do with the network bindings I believe.

Never really got on with the MS version.

Marc2003 not tried all of that but will give it a go.

simulatorman never heard of BootVis but will try it, I assume it tells you whats in the startup.

I will report back, any other ideas in the meantime, real pain this one.