Hi - I recently replaced the hard drive in my Mac after I dropped it. I did a clean installation of Leopard, and then I was able to restore everything via time machine with the exception of my VMware Windows XP virtual machine. This was not a problem as although I used it daily for Office 2007 work all my files were kept on my Macs hard drive and I accessed them through a shared folder on the XP virtual machine. All worked fine, and performance was excellent.
After I put in the new hard drive in and installed Leopard, I simply reinstalled VMware and recreated my XP virtual machine using my original disks. Now when I try to access Office 2007 files shared from my mac the performance is terrible - it is taking up to a minute to open a simple word document or spreadsheet. Performance within the VM is as good as its ever been, it just seems to be hanging when accessing the shared folders on the Macs disk.
I have no idea what is causing this as the set up is the same as I have before, just a new hard drive. I have tried all the obvious things I can think of - made sure all s/w is up to date, installed vmware tools, repaired permissions on the disk, even turned off anti-virus. None of this has had any effect.
I have a SR Macbook 2.2 with 4Gb of RAM with 768Mb allocated to the XP virtual machine. I am running OSX 10.5.6, vmware 2.0.1 and within the virtual machine its Win XP Home SP3 with Office 2007 professional.
Anyone got any idea what the problem might be? Advice much appreciated....
After I put in the new hard drive in and installed Leopard, I simply reinstalled VMware and recreated my XP virtual machine using my original disks. Now when I try to access Office 2007 files shared from my mac the performance is terrible - it is taking up to a minute to open a simple word document or spreadsheet. Performance within the VM is as good as its ever been, it just seems to be hanging when accessing the shared folders on the Macs disk.
I have no idea what is causing this as the set up is the same as I have before, just a new hard drive. I have tried all the obvious things I can think of - made sure all s/w is up to date, installed vmware tools, repaired permissions on the disk, even turned off anti-virus. None of this has had any effect.
I have a SR Macbook 2.2 with 4Gb of RAM with 768Mb allocated to the XP virtual machine. I am running OSX 10.5.6, vmware 2.0.1 and within the virtual machine its Win XP Home SP3 with Office 2007 professional.
Anyone got any idea what the problem might be? Advice much appreciated....