VisuFoxPro and VMware

Greetings All,
We are currently hosting a Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 application on a Windows 2003 server. I have attempted to virtualize the server using VMware's P2V converter. The conversion went flawlessly with no errors and the virtual server started just
fine. The problem we're having is that when a user first accesses the database on the server from the client on their machine, it works fine, but quickly starts getting slower and slower in responding to the user. When an action would normally take a few seconds,
the response goes up to about 8 minutes. The performance minitor of the virtual server shows very little CPU activity (less than 2%) and there are no spikes in memory usage either.
Has anyone else experienced this type of anomally? Does anyone know of any tweaks we need to make to the application to resolve this type of issue?
Thanks,
Patrick

This is not obvious. VMware should allow some monitoring which will show the bottle neck. Did you check what VFP command causes these delays? File opening, record/file locking etc?

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Model Identifier: iMac8,1
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Welcome to Discussions, Stanley Chung
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Thanks for the information. My last experience was with VMWare 1 and I don't think this functionality was available then. I downloaded today version 4 and at this point I am running Win 7 within MacOS. Haven't tried rebooting to my bootcamp partition yet or printing or sharing, etc. If it works as advertised though I should be a happy camper.
The import option doesn't strike me as a good one for my situation. I have 500GB on my MBP and 120 GB allocated to my windows bootcamp partition. If I do the import option with VMWare I'd basically need another 120 GB of the total space and then I'd have two unsynchronized windows disks, one under bootcamp and the other under VMWare.
Running VMWare as a Mac application I can see it's a bit slower than running in bootcamp, but I expected that.
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I would like to be able to run (simultaenously)
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The Retina machine with the NVIDIA GPU will be the fastest - it's a faster processor and has more VRAM.
Any VM is going to use resources - how much RAM, for example, is up to you. I have 16 GB of RAM and 8GB dedicated to Parallels/Windows 7 Pro.
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I would make sure to get a good, fast quad-core i7 processor, the 2GB of VRAM NVIDIA GPU and the maximum amount of RAM (16GB).
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