I have VM Fusion 3 on a MBP with 4 GB and a 5400 RPM hard drive.
VM Fusion crawls when it's starting up and the hard drive fan runs quite a bit.
I have 1.5 GB RAM allocated to this Windows XP Pro VM on VM Fusion. The Mac says that 3.99 GB of RAM is used, but usually 500 MB is "unallocated", so I'm not sure if the slowness is due to paging (MORE MEMORY NEEDED?).
So, my question is whether it would be a good idea (or even possible?) to just move VM Fusion to a fast firewire hard drive and have the MBP access it that way -- so you'd have a separate hard drive spinning for VM Fusion and not overload the 5400 RPM drive in the MBP.
Alternatively, I could upgrade memory or the disk in the MBP, both would probably help, but the memory from 4 GB -> 8 GB is about $499 on Newegg whereas a 7200 500 GB drive would be cheaper but more painful with moving software via backups and such.
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Any advice on how to get VM Fusion to work faster and not drag down the MBP's performance would be appreciated.
VM Fusion crawls when it's starting up and the hard drive fan runs quite a bit.
I have 1.5 GB RAM allocated to this Windows XP Pro VM on VM Fusion. The Mac says that 3.99 GB of RAM is used, but usually 500 MB is "unallocated", so I'm not sure if the slowness is due to paging (MORE MEMORY NEEDED?).
So, my question is whether it would be a good idea (or even possible?) to just move VM Fusion to a fast firewire hard drive and have the MBP access it that way -- so you'd have a separate hard drive spinning for VM Fusion and not overload the 5400 RPM drive in the MBP.
Alternatively, I could upgrade memory or the disk in the MBP, both would probably help, but the memory from 4 GB -> 8 GB is about $499 on Newegg whereas a 7200 500 GB drive would be cheaper but more painful with moving software via backups and such.
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Any advice on how to get VM Fusion to work faster and not drag down the MBP's performance would be appreciated.