The OSX 10.6.6 is installed inside VMware on Windows 7 host. The overall performance is great, However, the compiling time increased dramatically (1 hour against 2-3 min on pure MacOS). It's modern machine with Core i5 & 4GB RAM.Here are the XBench results:http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=517768&doc2=1&setCookie=trueI think the problem could be in extremely slow 4k write value, but I don't know how to improve this.
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Is there any way to increase performance?
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UPD1: swap is not used, there is enough memory for all operationsthe disk speed is also not related, since my another Macbook shows event worse results, and compiles hundreds times faster.
UPD2: problem solved, see my answer below
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In VMWare, you should have a setting where you can dedicate one or two cores entirely to the virtual machine. Assuming you have quad core, maybe give MacOSX 2 or 3 cores? If you have dual-core and you've allocated 1 core to the VM (and the problem still persists), i can't say much then!
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It's good that your problem is solved, but I want to share my experience for improving vmware performance. Please do install VMware tools for mac os and they are present in .iso file.
Steps to install VMware tools for MAC OS:
1) Power on your VM.
2) At the right bottom they are some pop-up symbols(These are usually not present in full screen mode). Rightclick the CD/DVD symbol.
3) Click setting. In this window make sure that darwin.iso is selected.
4) Close this window and again right click CD/DVD symbol.
5) Click connect. An icon will appear with name darwin(300).
6) Inside this file tools are present. Install them!
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2) At the right bottom they are some pop-up symbols(These are usually not present in full screen mode). Rightclick the CD/DVD symbol.
3) Click setting. In this window make sure that darwin.iso is selected.
4) Close this window and again right click CD/DVD symbol.
5) Click connect. An icon will appear with name darwin(300).
6) Inside this file tools are present. Install them!
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Sharing experience and solution.
My Xcode was running fine but when I build a project (even an empty one), it would take up to 10 minutes.
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SOLUTION:
Go to Xcode -> Preference -> Source Control: Dissable Source Control
Now projects build and run in a matter of seconds.
Brynjar GigjaBrynjar Gigja
The problem was: VERY SLOW recursive searching of include paths. If non-recursive, everything works smooth.
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I also got the same problem, But i want share my personal experience here.
- My CPUs RAM capacity is 4 GB, So i allocated 3.5 GB to the VMWarebecause of this it was very slow the entire operating system.
- So one day i clearly observed the VMWare settings, finally found thesolution. If we allocate the RAM memory more than recommended thenalso your operating system hangs. For my System the recommended RAMmemory is 2048MB, after adjusting this now OS is fast.
- We can adjust the RAM memory in Devices option, inside Hardware. Forclarification here i am attaching the screen shot.
Anjaneyulu BattulaAnjaneyulu Battula
I had the same problem and I fixed it as follow:
- Most boost I got with changing my vmware config file to disable memory stored in .vmem file. In my .vmx file I added :
- Setting max cores to the guest
- When programming with swift and XCode. Remove all comments /* */ not really used.
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