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I'm working on vmware image files. My computer always load hard disk and vmware works very slow at the same time.

Guest OS: Windows XP SP2
Host OS: Windows XP SP2

Is there any way can improve the performance?

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This question belongs on Super User, but, do you have enough system resources allocated to your VMs? Does your CPU have support for Virtual Machines (and is that support enabled in bios?) – Alan May 31 '10 at 4:07
How much memory does your guest operating system have? As a percentage of your total memory. – Rohan West May 31 '10 at 4:08
... and how much memory does the HOST OS (XP) have? – Chris_K May 31 '10 at 4:34
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From your question it sounds like the guest OS hard drive is an image file on the host OS. VmWare has the ability to write directly to a partition instead of an image file. That should speed up the hard drive access for the Guest OS.

Also as other comments suggested, increase the RAM on your computer, getting a faster hard drive (higher RPMs) should also help out.

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