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VMWare fusion slowing down bug

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Its a Mac related thing, but it was annoying the hell out of me, so its worth a post.  I use VMWare fusion to launch an XP client whenever I need to get something windowsy done.  Recently, it has taken longer and longer to start up going up to 10 minutes just to boot recently.  I tried uninstalling VMWare and reinstalling, checking disk fragmentation and restored a copy of my version XP image.  Nada.
Managed to solve it eventually today (I should of done this ages ago) by reinstalling VMWare tools on the XP image.  Works a treat again.

Update:  This has not fixed the problem - something is up here - any vm running on this macbook is now horribly slow to start and stop....  will let you know when I find something.

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1 - This doesn't sound hopeful. I installed VMWare Fusion 2 weeks ago or so, and I had the idea it's slower now than in the beginning. I hope not to become a victim of the bug Emoticon. Thanks for warning us!