Hard disk IO kills host OS

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Angelo Schneider

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As soon as you make a bigger install (e.g. Visual Studio) the disk IO kills the host!

Mac Book Pro 2 GHz here ... might be an issue with the slow internal serial ATA harddisk, however I would suggest an delayed writing, cashing, for the guest OS.

My compleeme machine is rendered unusable during such installs, can't even browse 7. or something ;D

Regards,
Angelo
 
Angelo Schneider said:
As soon as you make a bigger install (e.g. Visual Studio) the disk IO kills the host!

Mac Book Pro 2 GHz here ... might be an issue with the slow internal serial ATA harddisk, however I would suggest an delayed writing, cashing, for the guest OS.

My compleeme machine is rendered unusable during such installs, can't even browse 7. or something ;D

Regards,
Angelo
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Well, that's true of a real Windows XP machine when running VS install, so the PW emulation must be really accurate! :D

Seriously, I've noticed this also, however in fairness to PW that is also the case when I install Xcode tools on my MBP. Face it, the MBP is a great laptop, but like all laptops the internal HDD is slow (saves power). One solution is to place the PW virtual HDD on an external drive (e.g. firewire); this would solve the problem, but of course introduce some inconvenience.

--Tim
 
Also, when suspending a VM, my MBP gets really laggy. It would be good if Parallels could play nice with the other programs. :)
 
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