Although upgrading your computer’s hardware is a surefire way to improve the speed of VMware Player virtual machines, that may not always be feasible. However, newer operating systems such as Mac OS X, Windows Vista and Windows 7 tend to have speed issues on virtual machines due to the higher demands placed on system resources. With older operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows 2000, VMware Player generally offers great performance without any tweaking on any semi-recent computer. What can I do to make VMware Player faster on my computer?”
I don’t want to wait several minutes for a virtual machine to start up just so I can test one program on it. “I love using VMware Player to run different operating systems and test new software, but virtual machine performance on my computer is horrible.
