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1. #Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow install#
2. #Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow drivers#
3. #Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow full#
4. #Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow pro#
5. #Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow windows 8.1#

The former had 100% utilization of 4 cores, the latter about 50%. My benchmark with Fusion 6 for a C++ project (with heavy use of PCH) was: 58s on virtual disk, 281s(!) on shared folder. VS is asking to reload projects because they were “modified on disk” (they weren’t).

#Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow install#

I even went so far as to install Samba3 manually, but the performance is still significantly worse than native/vdisk. 10.8’s implementation is significantly slower than Samba 3, despite the latter using SMB1 (and I expect Samba 4 to be even faster). They as much as said that it’s not a priority - they have approximately one person working on all of HGFS, it seems.Īs for Mavericks’ SMB2: don’t get your hopes too high. I was in contact with the VMware folks all that time, but no improvements were coming. I reported it to VMware several *years* ago, did a few rounds of debugging and data gathering with them, they reproduced the issue and promised to pay attention to testing performance with Visual Studio. And that virtual disks are as fast as native disks (and they are, both in Fusion and Parallels) is just good engineering. Significant remaining issue is that Visual Studio uses a whole core of CPU to do nothing - just having a large solution open, not editing anything.Īc: no, the problem is very much real. The build time of this large project is now 15 seconds over VMWare Shared Folders.

#Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow windows 8.1#

I just updated my virtual machine to Windows Server 2012 R2 (aka Windows 8.1 server). I’m hoping maybe the new SMB implementation in Mavericks might greatly improve the performance of sharing source code from the host OS to the VM. I can confirm this is still a problem in VMWare Fusion 6. If you need to share the source code tree inside the VM with the host OS, create a file share from the VM to the host over a host-only adapter.

The performance penalty is just not worth it.

Moral of the story is just don’t host your source code on the host machine with VMWare. It appears as a mapped drive to a UNC name to Windows but it is very slow. I don’t know how the VMWare shared folder is implemented. Not only does hosting the source code within the VM virtual disk make the build go 5.5x faster, the CPU time of csc.exe goes way down.

#Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow full#

Incremental builds are basically instantaneous and a full rebuild takes 9 seconds when the code is hosted inside the VM image. Here are some empirical measurements of rebuild time of an actual solution: VMWare shared folder: 50 sec Maybe it isn’t that my class libraries are so complex but something else is going on. Apparently the build performance is pretty bad in this configuration. I have heard that storing the code on a “network” drive (either an HGFS share or an NFS/CIFS share on the host, accessed via a virtual ethernet device) is a bad idea. … (Full disclosure: I work on VMware Fusion.)

#Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow drivers#

OS X didn’t run very well under virtualization mostly because accelerated Quartz Extreme drivers don’t exist for VMware Workstation. When I started doing some iOS development, I ran Snow Leopard and Xcode under VirtualBox and when I got fed up with the flakiness, I used VMware Workstation. 99% of the time we ran this MacBooks with Windows 7 under Boot Camp. Apple offered us the best hardware and equivalent lease terms but with much simpler servicing done by ETF rather than (often incorrect) paper statements and checks.

#Vmware windows on mac fullscreen is slow pro#

In 2009, we chose 15″ MacBook Pro BTO over Dell, HP and Lenovo offerings.