I have virtual machines that I have to move periodically between 3 main host computers I use:
1. Intel Core2 Quad CPU with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - 1 processor with 4 cores
2. Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit - 1 processor with 4 cores
3. Intel Core2 Duo T7700 CPU VT with Windows XP 64 bit - 1 processor with 2 cores
The host computers run VMWare workstation 7.
Most of my virtual machines use XP 32 bit, and were originally created for my platform 3.
When I move my machines between computers I find that the Virtual Machine Settings for my processor change in (to me)
an unpredictable way. Sometimes it shows 1 processor and gives me a choice of up to 4 cores,
in other cases (still on a 4 core platform) only 1 processor with 1 core, in other cases 2 processors with 1 core.
In most of the cases my freedom of choice is limited, because the selection of number of cores is greyed out.
When I try to make changes by editing the vmx file I find them ineffective (no change).
The other problem I am finding is that my VMs have been running VERY SLOWLY on my i7 platform with 8GB!
I have no idea if this is related to the improper setting of the number of processores / cores (I am not able to set
them to 1-processor 4-cores and am running with settingsd 1,1 instead).
Could someone please help me to understand how to:
1. Control / change the number of processors / threads on an existing VM.
2. How to properly set those up for an i7 processor
Thanks in advance,
Andrew