windosw 7 vm locks up when browsing to main computer / network drive

Question

I installed a Windows 7 32 bit VM on my Windows 7 64 bit OS.

I have Integration features enabled

I can browse to my DVD drive ... but when I try to run a setup.exe (to install a program) it locks up

In fact even if I browse to my main computer and try to run a program ... it locks up

?? is there some setting I'm missing (or need to set)?

I have turned UAC OFF

Answer 1

I'm wondering if there might be a NIC driver/TCP

Offloading problem that might be causing the disconnects.  I've seen

similar problems.

 

It might be worth a try:

 

Use at your own risk and only if you are comfortable with editing the

registry!

 

To turn off TCP Offloading, add a DWORD value in

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters

 

label it  DisableTaskOffload , and change the value to 1, then reboot.

 

This basically turns of the NIC's ability to do some of the network

processing and so the CPU has to do it, but unless it's a very high

usage NIC, it shouldn't make much difference to the user.

 

 

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Bob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual Machine

Answer 2

Now that I am past accessing the network .... the VM seems unusable

Almost anything I try to do requires 100% of CPU which results in non-resposiveness

example trying to run MS Visual Studio 2010 ... task manager is flashing CPU at 100% ... I have 3 GIG of memory allocated for thiw VM ... I can't believe that it cannot run anything!

Is this another known issue? I'm using Windows Virtual Machine ....

I'm thinking of switching to VM Ware? this just seems pointless ... if it's unusable.

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Tracey

Answer 3

How much memory on the host?  My guess is that you are starving the host

for resources, cut the memory allocated down to 1G or 2G, and see how it

runs in each configuration.

 

Are you running Windows VPC, or VPC 2007?

 

If that doesn't help, VMWare player might do you.  It probably will run

Windows 7 a bit better in a VM, but at the expense of programs running

on the host.  If that's not a concern, then it should work.  VirtualBox

is another virtualization solution that can work pretty fast if its

compatible with your hardware.

 

 

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Bob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual Machine

Answer 4

I have 16 gig total (host computer); quad core

I allocated 2048MB to the XP Mode (VM) which works ok

I allocated 2560MB to the Windows 7 VM

The task manager on the host shows the CPU at 30% when the VM CPU is at 100%

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Tracey