virtual machine a very slow disk access

Hello world

I have 3 servers running as

virtual machines (VMWARE Workstation 6.5).  One is a SBS 2003 Server

and the other 2 are Win XP.  They are all around 250 GB each, with 1 GB

RAM and they are on a host of Windows 2003 (32 bit).  MEM and CPU

its use is quite low.

3 all virtual machines are incredibly

slow to copy the files to them.  Copying files to the host is without

problem.  I tried to break it up into partitions of 2GB, and made

nothing.  I know that on Linux hosts, there is an option to disable writing

caching, which apprently helps, but I do not see this avaiable for

Windows installs.

No idea what I can try next?

Thanks in advance,

Theo

You can disable the write cache by: computers, hard drives, properties, hardware, Device Manager, each drive, properties, political. Usually, the write caching speeds up things at the risk of corruption if it is not completed in writing if the machine breaks down.

Make sure that your VM folders are NOT protected by AV of your host program. To test these things, you can turn it off.

Disconnect the CD drive in the virtual computer.

250 GB is a very large virtual machine, have they been defragged?

If you run all 3 VM at the same time, it's 3 GB of memory, how the host there?

Lou

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