Hi,
I got VMWare Player with a couple of machines, some which are XP mode.
Since I upgraded my Player v3 to v5, I have the impression that the XP VM's are very slow with
window manipulations (scrolling, dragging, minimising, etc.).
Any of such manipulations cause the VM not to react for ca 0.5 second before it does the action.
Peculiar detail: using scrollwheel or pageup/pagedown results in slowness, but CTRL+END or CTRL+HOME is instant.
It is very annoying when wanting to scroll through documents, as you get nowhere fast.
I'm not sure if it started at exactly same time of the upgrade or if it is a coincidence.
I made some fresh XP VM's, but they have the same problem, so I do not think it is XP related, but VMWare.
My host computer:
Windows 7 x64 SP1
i7-2600k cpu
8GB RAM
2 partitions: system partition + data (where the VM's are) (no other significant HD activity)
AMD Graphics card
All virtualisation flags are enabled in BIOS.
VMWare Player 5.01 (Tools not installed)
the VM's are allocated 2 cores, and 2GB RAM.
Do you have an idea of what might be causing this issue?