I upgraded to Workstation 8 a few days ago and ever since have been suffering extrenly long suspends and shutdowns. Its not constant, but it happens a lot, perhaps 50% of the time. By slow, I mean anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes to suspend or shutdown a VM. i have about 30 VMs running various flavors of Windows from 32-bit XP SP3 to 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 and have seen this with nearly all of them. My host is a 64-bit Window 7 Ultimate with 16 gigs of RAM, its a monster of a laptop from Sager. I store the VMs on an external USB 3.0 drive, its a Seagate FreeAgent Go Flex 1.5 TB with over a gig of free space. I often have 3 or 4 VMs running at the same time, usually performance is fine except when I go to shutdown or suspend the VMs. The host OS shows overall CPU usage of less than 10%. Any tips on how to get performance back to what it was under Workstation 7?
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