Right, VMWare smartly only allocates actual used disk space. That said,
if you suddenly add a GB of content to your virtual windows machine
VMWare is going to have to increase the disk spaced used by the virtual
drive file by 1GB. That allocation process is usually one-way. If you
delete your 1GB of stuff the virtual drive doesn't shrink back down
(unless you run some special process). It's a lot faster to save a new
file in the virtual machine using already available space than to do
that with VMWare allocating more virtual disk space. So that's why I was
thinking it might have been initially slower while VMWare kept having to
allocate more space. After a while vmware should have enough space
allocated for day to day use and that overhead won't be slowing things
down. Also, I wonder if Windows doesn't do some kind of drive indexing
when it's first set up (like OSX).
CB
On 10/10/14, 3:58 PM, Phil Halton wrote:
That 80 GB number is the max size the VM is allowed to grow. The 20GB number
refers to its current actual size. Kind of like having a virtual 80 GB hard
drive with 20 used and 60 remaining.
On Oct 10, 2014, at 11:28 AM, jeff `greene <greenebo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Chris, I believe I set the disc space to 80gb. But if i look in the
virtual machines library folder it says like 20gb. Tonight I'll take a
look at fusion preferences.
Thanks, Jeff
On 10/10/14, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Ok, just wanted to make sure you hadn't allocated all your Mac's
resources to Windows :) Sounds like this was a clean install so you
should be on the latest virtual hardware version. You can check that in
the VMWare Fusion preferences under compatibility. On my Fusion 6 Win7
machine it goes to 10 so I'm assuming the hardware version on yours goes
to 11. How much disk space did you allocate to the virtual machine? The
default setting is to grow the disk storage as needed so maybe it's
still growing that. My basic Win7 machine (Firefox, Jaws) takes 13.9GB.
CB
On 10/10/14, 9:16 AM, jeff `greene wrote:
Hi Chris, My mac has 16gb ram and a quad-core processor. I noticed
during the fusion setup process there were some check boxes. The one
that was checked was easy setup, I'm wondering if one of the other
choices would have been better.
Jeff
On 10/10/14, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Just to check off the obvious, how much memory and CPU does your Mac
have?
For me the USB stuff has just worked including my Jaws key and various
thumb drives although I don't use those often anymore.
CB
On 10/9/14, 4:04 PM, jeff `greene wrote:
Hi Chris, I allocated 8gb memory and 2 cpu cores. If I have voiceover
running when I plug in my flash drive it does ask me if I want to
connect it to windows 7. Then my windows screen reader says there is a
problem. I'm going to play around with it again tonight, maybe there
are other settings available when windows isn't running. It just seems
kind of disappointing, the last time i used fusion it was version 3 on
a dual-core i7 with 4gb of ram to share and it seemed faster. Also, my
macintosh hd is an ssd, so it really disappoints me.
Regards, Jeff
On 10/9/14, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
How much memory and how many CPUs did you allocate to your Win7 Fusion
setup? At a minimum I would do 1GB RAM and 2CPU but more will go
faster.
I haven't used Fusion 7 but under previous version when you insert a
USB
device Fusion would ask if you want it connected to the Mac or Windows
side.
CB
On 10/9/14, 11:58 AM, jeff `greene wrote:
Hi, Well, yesterday I installed windows 7 under fusion 7. Last time i
used fusion it was version 3. I finally got it done but there are
some
problems. Windows 7 seems kinda slow, also when i plug a flash drive
into my mac when windows is running i get an error message and sound
on the virtual machine breaks up. So, I'm thinking about installing
win7 under bootcamp instead. How hard is it to do without sighted
assistance? Do you think it would be worth it to have the geek squad
do it?
Thanks, Jeff
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