How to improve disk I/O performances with VMware Workstation | virtualization.info

After doing some research in tweaking a slow performing VMware Workstation guest OS I came up with this concise and well written resource (although dated the content is still relevant).

How to improve disk I/O performances with VMware Workstation

 

Even on a 2 GB RAM workstation (as mine) VMware virtual machines can run slowly. Too slowly sometimes.

This can depend on a large amount of factors but we can reduce the number to 4 critical issues:

1. Antivirus real-time protection
2. HostOS disk fragmentation
3. Memory trimming
4. Page sharing

…link below is full article with implementation steps

How to improve disk I/O performances with VMware Workstation | virtualization.info