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Virtual machine slowness
I was fortunate to get a few license keys for 2016 server and I set up a virtual machine for testing purposes. The last 2 times I ran it I ran into major slowness issues. The mouse was lagging and jerking around to different parts of the window, the right click menus where loading on the opposite side of the window from which I opened them, and the start menu would only open if I hit the Windows key. The first time this happened I attributed this to installing updates but that wasn't the case the last time. Now I have given all of my virtual machines from Vista and 2008 on up the same specs. They get 2 cores of my 3.2 ghz quad core i3 and 2 gb of ram out of my system's 8. I can run any of the rest of the VMs without any performance issues. I can even run 2 of them at a time just fine with no slowness on the virtual machines or on my host OS but lately I am having problems even running the 2016 VM by itself. CPU and memory usage seemed a little high running anywhere from 10-30% with defender and .net optimization taking up the bulk of the CPU cycles. This has me flabbergasted considering that I really don't do anything with this VM other than look around and keep it updated. I don't have any server related software running on it at all. I don't run browsers or office software on it. Any advise? I'm not as familiar with 10 as I am 7 so I'm not sure what to look for. I didn't find any way to turn off .net optimization. Is there a way to turn that off? It isn't showing up under services. At the time of the slowness I wasn't experiencing any issues on my host. If it helps I am using Vmware workstation 12.5.9 on Windows 7.