>I am doing most of my development work now in VPC or VMWare. However I
> think VS 2008 runs very slow in a virtual environment. Compiling,
> debugging etc runs a LOT slower compared to a non-virtual environment
> (or perhaps more correctly in a non-virutal environment with dual CPU
> cores). VS 2005 feels faster than 2008.
>

> Give the VM as much memory as you can

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>> Give the VM as much memory as you can
>
>Don't think the problem is memory. The VM I am currently using has 1.4
>GB RAM assigned and only ~700 MB is used.
>
>Maybe it is disk access (heavy disk access when compiling/debugging
>etc). Perhaps should try to use a fixed disk size instead of dynamic.

> Get yourself a USB or FireWire connected external drive and put the
> VHD file on this. Then the main C: disk accesses by the operating
> system are not going to be hindering the accesses in the VHD.

> I am doing most of my development work now in VPC or VMWare. However I
> think VS 2008 runs very slow in a virtual environment. Compiling,
> debugging etc runs a LOT slower compared to a non-virtual environment
> (or perhaps more correctly in a non-virutal environment with dual CPU
> cores). VS 2005 feels faster than 2008.
>
> I guess one reason might be that VS 2008 is doing more background work
> which will slow done things when only utilizing one core. Not to mention
> that my usual environment involves client+web service + sql server which
> is a tough on a single cpu.
>
> Is there anything you can chnage to make VS runs better in a virtual
> environment? Other than the usual stuff, turning off everything you
> don't need, vhd on a fast disk, defrag etc. I am using hardware assisted
> virtualization also.
>
> One option is maybe running VMWware and setting up a VM using two cpus,
> hoevwer I have seen recommendation not doing so when you have only 2
> physical cpus/cores.