Hi, I've noticed that resume time of my Parallels 4 with the Windows 7 installed on it varies wildly: it can be horrible, like 5 minutes and lightning fast like 10 seconds with MS Word started as well. When the startup is slow I can see that the hard disk is used heavily: I can hear the disk head seeking all the time and in the activity monitor the average data read is about 2MB/sec. And I can't tell why it's like that. Yesterday I blamed other processes using the same disk so that concurrent read/write made that HDD a bottleneck. However today morning I made sure no other applications make any serious disk usage, still my first attempt to resume the Windows 7 was damn slow. I monitored the disk usage with 'fs_usage' command and couldn't really see any other process in the logs. After that I could suspend and resume Parallels in 10 secs. Any ideas? Regards, Zoltan One more thing: The guest OS is a fresh install, with only an MS Office on it (what else? ).
Huge resuming time Same to me!! Parallels Desktop for Mac 5.0.9370. Windows 7. Awful slow resume! Please help.
upgrade made resume faster Since then I've upgraded to Parallels 5 and this resume time is at least a bit shorter, it's about a minute for Parallels to resume Windows 7 from suspended state. Still I think I'm moving the VM from the HDD file to a separate disk, since I've got some other HDD hungry applications and concurrent reads / writes (parallels vs. other apps) hurt the overall performance.
