VMWare Fusion Snapshots == slow system

Date June 29, 2009

Just thought i’d put out a quick note for anyone running Fusion (and I expect other VMWare products)… If you find that over time your system has become sluggish and is really painful to work with, make sure you don’t have any machine snapshots for that VM.

I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising, but in my experience with a machine of which I’d made a snapshot, over a year of moderate use the machine had become incredibly sluggish; on deleting the snapshot (which took quite a while to complete) the vm is back up to being plenty fast for my needs.

2 Responses to “VMWare Fusion Snapshots == slow system”

  1. Ken Shirriff said:

    FYI: the links on (and to) your website seem to be broken and all go to the home page. E.g. click on code, click on Arduino Logic Analyzer, and you end up back at home.

  2. tymm said:

    Thanks for the heads-up — I’ve been re-engineering a bit of this site, and unfortunately didn’t get all the links taken care of. Hopefully got it all straightened out so the old URLs work again…

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