I have temporarily 'fixed' the issue with running my webradio in Windows
Media Player on my host machine. This gives a constant CPU-usage (of 2-3%)
which seems to be the key to remove the laggy experience in your VPC.
Still looking forward for a real fix though.
Greetings
Bart
"Bart L" wrote:
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> We're suffering small performance issues when running VMs on 2 of our 4
> developer machines with Win7 RC Ultimate x64 installed (the other 2 machines
> experience no problems at all).
> Mouse actions and keyboard actions (cursor movement or typing) have regular
> mini-freezes which result in a "laggy" experience. CPU usage also seems to
> jump around between low and high values without any reason, with the
> taskmanager also freezing up in intervals of half a second or more and using
> up to 50% of the CPU at certain moments.
>
> We've already experienced this problem with Windows XP and Windows Server
> 2003 virtual machines. Using remote desktop doesn't fix the problem.
> I found a small tweak with booting a 2nd virtual machine (let's say a Win7
> VM with 512mb ram) that almost removed the 'laggy' experience, but you can
> understand this isn't a nice way to work.
>
> Installing/Enabling/Disabling Integration Features doesn't make a real
> difference (on first impression).
>
> All 4 machines (so 2 with problems and 2 without) are running clean Win7 RC1
> x64 installation on an Intel Core2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2GHz, with 4GB of RAM. All
> other hardware/software (even BIOS version) is the same between these
> machines.
>
> I wonder if this is a known issue and if there is any solution to it.