When I resume a virtual machine I get a progress indicator that lasts 15-20 seconds for 4gb ram machines, that's fine.
But when I cold suspend* a virtual machine the progress indicator takes 1 second or 2 and disapears but writing to disk takes a really long time (maybe from 10 to 30 minutes) and there is no progress indicator, I only notice something is going on because of the HDD led.
Some info:
- Windows 7 64 bit
- 12gb of ram
- I'm using VMware Workstation Pro, the issue I'm having happens on any virtual machine and they use 4gb of ram
- My used ram never goes above 70% when having this issue, I never use more than 1 machine at the same time
- My page file is set to use a different drive than the virtual machine files, also it is set to 16MB but can expand if needed (it never expands)
- When checking with resource monitor the writing speed of the vmware file goes up to 5,000,000 bytes per second and sometimes down to 300,000 bytes per second, nothing else is being writed to that disk
My questions:
1. Is there a way to force the suspend progress indicator to show the progress as it is being saved to the hard disk?
2. Is there a way to optimize the suspend speed?
Thanks
*By cold suspend I mean the first time I suspend the machine on that boot, if I immediately suspend and resume the same machine several times the suspend is still on the background but the suspend times get reduced (maybe 20-30 seconds)