Hello,
I have just created a new virtual machine in Workstation 9.0.1. Both Host and Guest OS is Windows 7 x64. In the guest I ran the Windows Experience Index evaluation and noticed some weird changes (you can find the WEI for both host and guest attached to this post).
1) Hard drive performance in the guest increased from 5.9 to 6.9 - How is that even possible?
2) Memory operations per second in the guest dropped from 7.5 to 4.5 - what could be the reason for such a significant memory performance drop?
3) CPU performance in the guest dropped from 7.3 to 6.4, but I guess this is to be expected.
Host Configuration:
CPU Intel Core i5-750 2.66 GHz
8 GB RAM
nVidia GeForce GTX 260
HDD: 3xWD Caviar Black (1x750GB, 2x1TB) - I am aware of this being a bottleneck of my host
Guest Configuration:
Hardware compatibility: WS9.0
1 CPU, 2 Cores per CPU
Preferred mode: Intel VT-x/EPT, also checked Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT
RAM 1536 MB
HDD: SCSI 64 GB, single file, not preallocated
Checked Disable Memory Page Trimming
Can you please explain the above changes in WEI and suggest how to improve especially the memory performance in the guest?
Thanks in advance.
Ivo