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Windows XP Guest as normal VM.
Hey guys,
I have recently bought two new workstations that have Windows 7 Professional on them and they run perfectly. With our old workstations, we used to run XP Professional as a host and XP Professional as a guest OS (to give our users more chance to multi-task, one of our applications can only use one CPU so it was a good shout to make a VM to use another CPU, anyway ...) it worked really well, neither host nor guest had slow downs and both ran things like Office suits and database applications.
Now we are using Windows 7, I have installed XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC and have created a new Virtual Machine that runs XP - ie, I'm NOT using XP mode as I don't think it'll be up being used a proper machine - but it runs terribly slow to the point where it's pointless having it.
The host machines are pretty high spec, Intel Xeon E5506 quad-core 2.13GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 512MB nVidia Quadro FX580 graphics card so I don't really understand why an XP VM would run so slow. I've given it 2GB of RAM and a CPU to use, is this slowdown by design or have I missed something?
Thanks for the help,
Adam.