I have been using Microsoft Virtual PC for years and another Engineer at my office convinced me to give VMWare a try because USB support would be valuable to me.
I have an HP X4000 workstation with dual 2GHz Xeon CPU's and 4G of memory with a fresh installation of Win2k3 Server Standard edition with SP2 configured as just a member server on my Domain (no IIS, DNS, DHCP or ANY other server functions). I have an NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT card presently installed (I had an older NVIDIA card but upgraded it in the hopes it would improve the video performance of the VM)
I am using VMWare Server version 1.0.2
My guest OS is WinXP SP2.
I have the VM configure to use 2 CPU's and 1G of memory.
I have VMWare Tools installed.
The VM is slow in general, and the VIDEO RESPONSE is EXTREMELY SLOW.
There are occasion when it will take 10 seconds or more to respond to a right mouse click on the task bar before I am presented with the pop up menu !
There are also periods of time when the entire VM seems to be in limbo.
There are times when I observe that task manager on the host indicates that there is plenty of memory and CPU available, yet task manager in the VM is telling me that the VM is at 100% CPU utilization.
I came across the post by Thany which originated on 9/25/07 and his situation seemed to be exactly analogous to mine - at least so I thought until the resolution to his problem turned out to be the installation of "AMD Optimizer" or "CPU driver" which was apparantly needed due to his system being AMD based as opposed to Intel ?
I would most appreciate any suggestions.
At this point I'm ready to go back to Microsoft Virtual PC because I simply can not be productive with this VMWare VM.