mrsavage Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Hi, I installed mac in my vmware and its sooooooooooo slow that icannot even propely open firefox. Is this normal? or do i have to disable somtehing. running 10.4.3 8111f version without "a" update com is Pentium D830 2gig ram virtual machine has 1 gig of ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Hi, I installed mac in my vmware and its sooooooooooo slow that icannot even propely open firefox. Is this normal? or do i have to disable somtehing. running 10.4.3 8111f version without "a" update com is Pentium D830 2gig ram virtual machine has 1 gig of ram A virtual PC is never so fast as a native installation. What do you mean with slooooooooow? Make a benchmark with Xbench and compare it to others here in the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 VMware is always slow because it adds a layer of virtualisation above your hardware which is limited in speed by the actions of the host operating system. My fastest vmware xbench scores where around the 20 mark on a vmware image. That was on a Athlon64 3000+ with 1Gig RAM and stripped sata hd's. Firefox is sluggish on my native 915G installation so it's maybe not the best indicator of performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsavage Posted January 6, 2006 Author Share Posted January 6, 2006 (edited) but even my safari is sooo slow it takes 11 secs to start up firefox can't even install it takes forever and hangs the system Edited January 6, 2006 by mrsavage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Run xbench and get some detail on what aspects of the system are "slow" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsavage Posted January 6, 2006 Author Share Posted January 6, 2006 Name Score Detail Results 14.82 System Info Xbench Version 1.2 System Version 10.4.3 (8F1111) Physical RAM 512 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive CPU Test 56.88 GCD Loop 70.11 3.70 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 58.45 1.39 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 41.39 1.37 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 67.60 11.77 Mops/sec Thread Test 65.56 Computation 66.00 1.34 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 65.11 2.80 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 25.16 System 13.19 Allocate 5.00 18.36 Kalloc/sec Fill 70.92 3448.35 MB/sec Copy 74.97 1548.55 MB/sec Stream 273.50 Copy 253.90 5244.11 MB/sec Scale 386.75—> 7990.10 MB/sec Add 260.47 5548.48 MB/sec Triad 234.66 5019.99 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 8.71 Line 10.59 704.98 lines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 6.04 1.80 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 10.17 829.22 circles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 17.21 434.06 beziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 6.35 396.94 chars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 35.07 Spinning Squares 35.07 44.48 frames/sec User Interface Test 4.51 Elements 4.51 20.72 refresh/sec Disk Test 28.77 Sequential 34.91 Uncached Write 33.33 20.46 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 68.50 38.76 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 17.67 5.17 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 74.73 37.56 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 24.47 Uncached Write 8.11 0.86 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 73.66 23.58 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 76.34 0.54 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 74.41 13.81 MB/sec [256K blocks] I am running vmware 5.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 You can gain some speed with VMware 5.5 Of all builds of OSX86 8F1111 is the slowest on VMware, best is the 8F1099, even 10.4.1 is faster than 10.4.3 8F1111. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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