Hardware support does greatly speed up installations but once the vmadds are
installed I shouldn't think performance would differ much with or without
hardware assistance.
"Melelina" <melelina@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A4CD4D7A-B1D7-46CF-A7F6-127C80C5D2A7@xxxxxx Quote:
>> The fact that it only utilizes one processor does not mean it monopolizes
>> that processor. In any case the T60 is dual core and you should not be
>> seeing more than 50% utilization due to the guest (100% of one core is
>> 50% of the cpu). There are a couple of settings you can change under the
>> Virtual PC options (File menu/Options/Performance on the Virtual PC
>> console). If the VPC console is minimized, right click on the icon in
>> the notification area and select Show VPC Console then select the File
>> Menu.
>
> It should also help if you enable hardware virtualization. I don't have it
> and I'm not sure why because the Dell XPS 410 has it and I have XPS 600
> which doesn't. I'm very envious of anyone with hardware virtualization
> and can't wait for Dell to start selling machines with Hypervisor.
>
> I have a Pentium 4 at 3.8GhZ with hyperthreading and I don't see any undue
> utilization of just one cpu. I never have with VMWare Workstation 5.5
> machines either. Quote:
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>> "Dave" <Dave@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:9ECF9FED-0B9F-4230-BEAD-C106E5057BEA@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> Hi, I have a Vista host running a Vista guest in my VPC 2007 SP1. I
>>> have
>>> this virtual machine to install betas etc.
>>>
>>> However, I get 100% utilization and hangs my guest OS. I'm running this
>>> on
>>> an IBM T60 laptop with a Centrino Duo.
>>>
>>> I've read this is because VPC only runs on one processor. Any ideas or
>>> hotfixes available? Thanks, Dave
>> >
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