I'm having a massive issue with CPU usage running VMWare 6.02 on OS X Mavericks 10.9. This is an 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 with 16Gb of RAM. I've been running a Win7Pro instance on VMWare with very few issues until upgrading to OS X 10.9. The VM is set for 2 CPU's and 6Gb or RAM with about a 100Gb space allocation. The VM image is set to split up the image into smaller files.
After upgrading to Mavericks ALL actions take an extremely long time in Windows. Even boot up takes about 15 minutes or longer. From the exact moment that I click 'Start up' for the VM my host CPU usage spikes to 100% and stays there. This is an unusable situation.
Tried these things:
- Reinstalling VMware tools
- Shutting off unneeded services one at a time
- Reclaiming Disk space
- Rebooting the host
- Changed Cpu allocation to just 1 CPU
- Went through these forums looking for help.
Each and every time my host CPU spikes to 100% the exact moment I click 'Start' in VMware. So this is even before the Windows OS starts to boot up.