VMware Workstation Performance
Those were real eyopeners! Especially the Byron Brewer blog entry.
I followed his advice and added the following lines to my two config.ini files:
C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\config.ini C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini
The items added:
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100" mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE" mainMem.partialLazySave = "FALSE" mainMem.partialLazyRestore = "FALSE"
After editing these two files I started up WS7.1.5 again and started the guest once more. It took 55s to reach the black screen, but now the blackout lasted only 2 seconds rather than several minutes before!!!!
if suspend time and start time is important DO NOT TWEAK the config.ini and use the default instead
mainmem.useNamedFile = "true"
Adding these settings to a virtual machine can reduce the I/O load on the hard disk, however these adjustments require additional memory on the host. Only add these settings if there is sufficient free memory on the host to accommodate all the memory allocated to the virtual machine, otherwise you may cause a memory starvation condition that can reduce performance of all the running virtual machines or possibly affect the host operating system. Use these settings with caution.
Note: If you are using VMware Server, you may need to restart the VMware Authorization Service (vmware-authd) for changes to take effect.
MemTrimRate = "0" mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE" sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE" prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "TRUE"
