#VMWARE FUSION FOR MAC CORE 2 DUO PRO#

The Mac Pro has the latest BIOS installed, per Apple's tech note. Moving the vm from the spindle drive (WD Black) that it's on to an SSD Adding RAM to the Mac so that I can allocate more RAM to the VM How would you rank the following in terms of benefit to the Windows vm's performance? I can probably do one or two of the following: So I want to focus on the most improvement for my money. I'm going to spend time on the VMware forums to figure out the optimal settings for the VM, but on the Mac side I have a little bit of money to throw at the problem, but not a bunch. The vm is 'almost there.' I just want to improve its performance.

I don't want a dedicated, standalone PC for a bunch of reasons. I need to run the vm at my 30' ACD's native 2560x1600 resolution and the response from Windows when launching apps or dragging windows just seems a bit sluggish.Īctivity Monitor on the Mac doesn't show any issue with RAM or CPU usage. The Win 7 performance is adequate but I want it to be snappier. The vm is on a spindle drive (WD Black) that's separate from the SSD that contains the MacOS. It has the stock ATI Radeon AT2600 XT 256 video card.Ī long-term project requires that I run Windows 7, which I'm running on a VMWare Fusion 6.0.2 vm to which I've given the 2 gigs of RAM that the VMware settings dialog suggests. I have a 'standard' Mac Pro 2008 (3,1) with the RAM upgraded to 12 gigs.

Vmware fusion for mac core 2 duo