I did some compilation (ACE TAO, and Boost C++ library) in vmware player virtualmachine environment. I find I was unable to tolerate the performance.
My machine is T410(i7 620, 6G memory and 5400 harddriver). The installed OS is Ubuntu 12.04 and then I installed vmware player, where the hosted OS is XP. I allocated (3G,2 core for 15G) for VMware player.
For example, for Boost, the bootstrap.bat takes about 3 hours to complete in XP while it is only several seconds in ubuntu. For ACE TAO compilation, it takes 2 days in hosted XP but only less 3 hours in Ubuntu.
I checked task manger in hosted XP. CPU usage keeps about 12%, and only 300M~ memory are really used. Since both CPU and memory are not bottleneck, the problem should be at Disk side.
Because it is not possible to repace new hard driver, I wonder if there is some guide for Vmware player performance tunning, especially for hard driver?
This is link from vmware site http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1008885
But the tools vmware-vdiskmanager in the link does not exist in my side.. How to check snapshot of my machine. Seems there is no snapshot generated in my machine.