VMWare Virtual Machine Performance

[GL]

I'm running VMWare on a Windows 2000 Box (Celeron 520, 256MB RAM, GF2 MX, 30GB Quantum LM). I installed Slackware 7.1 onto a VMWare Virtual Machine and am using GNOME. Now, I've used Slackware a lot before. But I've never used GNOME. When I'm in GNOME, it seems a bit sluggish (like I'm using a Pentium instead of a P6 class CPU). Is this because of GNOME itself, or is this because of the virtual machine? Has anybody tested an installation in both a virtual machine and a real machine and compared the performance? I'd like to know just how much slower this Slackware installation is on a VM than it would be on a real machine. Thanks in advance.

-GL

 

[Oblique]

Are you running it in fullscreen or windowed mode? If in windowed, switch to fullscreen. Screen refreshing sucks otherwise. Also, how much ram are you allocating to the VM? When are you seeing slowdown, all the time or during disk writes?

 

[GL]

Oblique,

I've allocated 128MB and 64MB to the VM experimenting with both. The slowdown tends to be constant...I'm starting to think it could be my CPU. The mouse movement is just really lagged and even in fullscreen (which I use) the refresh is OK but it's just not as snappy as I think it should be. Note that I have installed the vmware-toolbox .

Thanks in advance.

-GL