Hi,
I've been searching around for help with this problem but have so far drawn a blank, so hopefully someone here might be able to help.
I have a number of Red Hat machines which run Windows 7 x64 in a VM via VMWare Player 5.0. The machines are Dell Precision T5600's with dual 6-core Xeon's, 6GB RAM and a 10krpm HDD.The VM's are set up for 2 CPU, virtualisation options are on and 3GB RAM is allocated.
During normal operation the VM and the host machine run very smoothly, however when certain scripts are run the performance of the host and the VM drops dramatically and CPU usage reports much higher for the vmplayer process despite nothing extra being run on that side. It's worth noting that the same scripts were previously run just fine on an older version of VMWare Player with a Windows XP VM.
I've tried upgrading VMWare Player to 5.0.1, which made no difference and I'm a bit stumped as to where I should be looking.
Has anyone else seen this sort of issue, or have any ideas as to what I can try?