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vmx file, you will not be able to boot your VM.įigure 3 - TextEdit Preferences menu showing location of Smart quotes setting If this option is checked and you save the. Make sure Smart quotes is unchecked (See Figure 3 below). vmx file itself, launch TextEdit and open the Preferences menu. You can easily make changes that render the VM unusable or unable to boot!īefore changing the. There are hundreds of additional configuration options which can only be modified by editing the. VMWare only exposes a small number of settings through the UI. Also, select “Pre-allocate disk space” as shown in Figure 2:įigure 2 - Hard Disk Settings Settings in the. On the Hard Disk Settings page, expand the “Advanced options” menu and change the Bus type to SCSI.

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I also saw a performance boost by changing the driver for the hard drive bus type to SCSI. Also, select “Enable hypervisor applications in this virtual machine” as shown in Figure 1.

I found that a combination of 2 processor cores with 4096 MB of memory works best for my needs (Note: My MacBook Pro has a 2.8GHz Intel quad core i7 with 8 GB RAM and Intel Iris GPU with 1536 MB).

I’ve documented these steps below to help others who find themselves in a similar situation. Thankfully, after changing a few settings and clearing unnecessary files I was able to improve the speed and responsiveness of both my Mac and the Windows 10 instance. However, the performance of the VM degraded significantly over time, especially with multiple Visual Studio projects open in the VM and resource-hungry programs running on the Mac simultaneously. For the first month or so everything ran smoothly. Since I’m a Mac user, I run VS on a Windows 10 instance with VMWare Fusion. The majority of my work consists of C#/.NET development, and Visual Studio+ReSharper is my preferred IDE.

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