I'm currently creating windows 2008 64-bit templates and in the middle of configuring the windows 2008 64-bit standard virtual machine, the performance of the VM went down the drain.
The look and feel of the virtual machine is equal to a machine where the hardware acceleration is turned down. But VMtools are installed on a "virgin" windows VM, no old dll's are active.The VM is running on a ESX 3.5 update 4 system without any other machines active. ESX is running on a blade 460 G5 (dual quad core, 32MB ram)
I've experienced the same problem with existing w2k8 64 bit templates which was copied from a 3.5 update 2 environment. The sluggishness started as soon as I logged into windows, so I figured it was a problem in the templates. But after creating the second template, the problem occured on the fresh (standard) VM as well.
I've used several ISO's and the problem keep on existing. I've vmotioned the VM to different ESX machines, but the problem seems to exist in the VM.
When monitoring the VM, ESXTOP shows nothing out of the ordinary and Resource monitor in windows shows a near-idle guest-os. No disk activity, and little cpu and memory utilization.
No virusscanner is currently installed and no applications are installed. The VM is configured with the correct operation system type. What seems odd to me, is that the performance off the machine started of quite nice and deteriorated along the way. When pressing the start button it can take up to 15 seconds before appearing. I almost looks like a IRQ problem of the video adapter.
The mouse pointer seems to move erradically along it's path, slowing down and speeding up. It looks quite the same as grandma behind the wheel of a car. Speeding up...Slowing down...Speeding up. You get the picture.
32 bit VM's and windows 2003 64-bit VM's do not show any signs and work quitte nice. Does somebody experienced similar problems with the windows 2008 64-bit VM's?
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