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VMware Workstation is used when people do not know if I have found that sometimes the virtual hang (ie standby), the computer suddenly become very slow, very slow.
To live a long time will have to react, and some computer configuration somewhat less points, not directly move and had to force a shutdown.
I encountered this situation before only by constantly pressing the Caps Lock key to make it a little reaction, in fact, many times we get stuck when the computer, continue to press this button, allow it to react quickly, otherwise you will and so it waited a long time.
Sometimes not wait, it forced shutdown, so in fact the computer is not good, the biggest damage is still hard.
This problem has troubled me a couple of years, just thought it was the system used for a long time, then nothing inside the host system is installed, it is still the case.
I have thought about is the data file is too large, such as a few G, 30G and even more, but that was I immediately ruled out, because there is a WIN XP SP3, occupying more than 40 G, why it does not have this problem?
Next, I had to slowly excluded:
1. Memory, will be occupied by other virtual machines larger memory; and found that there is a WIN 2003 XP than the smaller memory footprint
2 graphics acceleration and found to turn off the 3D graphics acceleration, the result is still the same
3. There were times when I would not have found the problem after the restart the virtual machine card WIN7, I was thinking where reason, recall a previous jam when the hard drive light is constantly lit
In fact, before it doubted the reason the hard drive, but the former wife black disk Western Digital, also have this problem, now replaced by Seagate hybrid hard drive as well as the issue, there should be no problem with the hard disk itself.
I'm trying to come in to no avail, I suddenly saw WIN XP SP3 virtual machine's hard drive is IDE mode, is it not VMware SCSI drives?
Then a look, the other is a SCSI drive.
Casual Internet search a bit then:
After vmware scsi host hangs super slow http://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&bs=vmware+scsi+%E5%AF%BC%E8%87%B4%E7%A1%AC%E7% 9B% 98% E5% 8F% 98% E6% 85% A2 & f = 8 & rsv_bp = 1 & wd = vmware + scsi +% E6% 8C% 82% E8% B5% B7% E5% 90% 8E +% E4% B8% BB% E6% 9C% BA% E8% B6% 85% E6% 85% A2 & rsv_sug3 = 9 & rsv_sug1 = 9 & rsv_sug4 = 476 & inputT = 7914
What I had expected, it was also encountered this problem.
http://hi.baidu.com/zhiyanzhai33/item/7cc4a44fec7a27ea1e19bccf
According to this which says, as long as the normal shutdown, the card will not, I later tested, if it is "sleep" mode does not card, pay attention to the "sleep" instead of standby (or sleep, or call hangs), similar to hibernation shut down, data processing and standby is just like it, so "sleep" and belong to completely shut off the device.
Last Summary: If your hard drive is fast enough, the same can be considered a virtual machine with IDE, I have not found use IDE virtual machine in question.
In WIN7 virtual machine, is also used SCSI hard disk , so I often find open some folders inside it will be stuck there, will have to wait a long time to react, it seems that should find time to replace IDE hard disk of.
Note that the article mentioned in the IDE hard disk refers to the type of virtual machine used in hard disk, you may want to convert an existing virtual look, but how to convert, yet unknown. I own the spirit of existing virtual machine a couple of years, and intend to re-do my set.