vmware fusion xserver performance

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 19:40:56 UTC 2008


Hey all,
Has anyone else using VMWare Fusion (or any vmware) noticed a major change in X 
server performance since beta?  I'm seeing very slow window movement, screen 
refresh, menu drawing, etc.  Its so slow I find I have to make deliberately slow 
mouse movements to get windows to move to where I want them while dragging.

Before beta I don't have this problem, its much faster.  I still have a VM that 
has not been updated since the freeze and the X performance is significantly better.

In the post-beta VM I have all disks encrypted (separate scsi vmblk disk for / 
and /home), but in pre-beta I didn't have any encryption used.  I'm also using 
ext4 for both disks now and had ext3 for both before.  I wouldn't expect either 
of those things to have such a big impact on X performance though.

Thoughts?  Its usable, just seems to be a performance regression.

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