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My dual-boot laptop (Windows 8.1 + Ubuntu 14.04) I installed, on both Windows and Ubuntu, VMware Player 7.0.0.

In other words:

  • Same exact hardware (16GB RAM!)
  • Same VMware Player version (7.0.0)
  • Same exact VM (accessible through a shared NTFS mount)

On the Windows VMPlayer, the VM is snappy, responsive and performs very well. On the Ubuntu VMPlayer, same exact VM is painfully slow, unresponsive, sometimes freezes for 30 seconds or more.

Ubuntu 14.0.4 already impressed me as an OS that is slower than Ubuntu 10.0.4, but I am having hard time to believe that this is the reason for VMPlayer's abysmal performance.

Is there a way to find out what causes this sluggishness? i.e. some log files or other tuning data?

Alternatively, if you have experienced this before and you know how to fix this, I would be grateful for any tip that will make my VMPlayer 7.0.0 usable under Ubuntu, as I much prefer the Ubuntu environment over Windows.

Not So Sharp
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Strangely enough, this issue was resolved by simply running the VM with the VM stored on an Ubuntu/EXT partition, as I suggested in the comments.

It could be the fact that it's stored on an NTFS partition - but that's doubtful. If you're curious, try making a copy of the VM somewhere on the Ubuntu partition and pointing VMware to that one.

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RPiAwesomeness
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12.04 and 16.04 so presumably also 14.04 are definitely slower than 10.04 unless you happen to have new hardware which does not mind the extra churn going on in newer versions. As far as I can tell, since 12.04 some churnware such as tumblerd has been losing its configuration option to switch it off if you don't want a cpu core to be fully busy doing that. Like we'd all want to buy quadcore eventually if enough things are broken without it. Therefore your vmware player, if it has an option to allow more than one core to be used by the vm, is increasingly likely to need it with newer operating systems.

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