vmware fusion xserver performance

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:40 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 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.

I'd be curious to know what X server versions are in each, but I have an
idea.  I turned offscreen pixmaps off for XAA since they're generally a
performance loss and it happens to work around a rather nasty Render bug
that firefox happens to trigger.

Does life get any better if you say Option "XaaOffscreenPixmaps" ?

- ajax