I installed VMware Player yesterday and installed my user programs and everything seemed to work great but for one thing: Each time I start the VM my hex core Core i7 is pegged at 100% CPU usage and it takes 17 1/2 minutes to load. This is on a 4Ghz machine with 64Gb DDR3 and a PCI-e SSD that can hit 5,000mb/s. One up and running everything is fine. I have allocated 12 of my cores to the VM, 8Gb RAM,and 60Gb disk space. So it has resources available. Is this considered a normal start time for a VM? (btw, my computer takes about 90 seconds from Off to logon.). Installing updates and rebooting is prohibitive due to the boot time being 17 minutes.
If this is not a normal boot time, can someone point me to an article on how to fix it?
From the log file I see a huge time gap (from 14:38 to 14:51) as seen below. I have attached the log file.
2014-04-25T14:33:37.421-04:00| vmplayer| I120: cui::MKSScreenWindowCoordinator::HandleGuestTopologyChange: main UI rect: 1920x1200 @ 1920,0
2014-04-25T14:33:37.421-04:00| vmplayer| I120: cui::MKSScreenWindowCoordinator::HandleGuestTopologyChange: Found 1 present screens
2014-04-25T14:33:37.421-04:00| vmplayer| I120: cui::MKSScreenWindowCoordinator::HandleGuestTopologyChange: Windows for extra guest monitors will be shown
2014-04-25T14:33:41.999-04:00| vmplayer| I120: PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: mActive=1
2014-04-25T14:34:07.708-04:00| vmplayer| I120: PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: mActive=0
2014-04-25T14:38:02.708-04:00| vmplayer| I120: PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: mActive=1
2014-04-25T14:38:12.972-04:00| vmplayer| I120: PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: mActive=0
2014-04-25T14:51:30.459-04:00| vmplayer| I120: cui::MKSScreenWindowCoordinator::HandleGuestTopologyChange: main UI rect: 1920x1200 @ 1920,0
2014-04-25T14:51:30.459-04:00| vmplayer| I120: cui::MKSScreenWindowCoordinator::HandleGuestTopologyChange: Found 1 present screens
2014-04-25T14:51:30.459-04:00| vmplayer| I120: cui::MKSScreenWindowCoordinator::HandleGuestTopologyChange: Windows for extra guest monitors will be shown
2014-04-25T14:51:33.846-04:00| vmplayer| I120: cui::VMBindingUnityMgr::OnGuestCanRunUnityChanged: OS is not old Windows, checking Tools status. Version status: 3,
Machine:
Win 7 Pro 64bit - latetest updates
64Gb DDR3
Intel hex core Core i7 @ 4GHz
512 Gb OCZ Revo-2 3x PCI-e SSD
VMware Player 6.0.2 build 1744117