My dual-boot laptop (Windows 8.1 + Ubuntu 14.04) I installed, on both Windows and Ubuntu, VMware Player 7.0.0.
In other words:
- Same exact hardware (16GB RAM!)
- Same VMware Player version (7.0.0)
- Same exact VM (accessible through a shared NTFS mount)
On the Windows VMPlayer, the VM is snappy, responsive and performs very well. On the Ubuntu VMPlayer, same exact VM is painfully slow, unresponsive, sometimes freezes for 30 seconds or more.
Ubuntu 14.0.4 already impressed me as an OS that is slower than Ubuntu 10.0.4, but I am having hard time to believe that this is the reason for VMPlayer's abysmal performance.
Is there a way to find out what causes this sluggishness? i.e. some log files or other tuning data?
Alternatively, if you have experienced this before and you know how to fix this, I would be grateful for any tip that will make my VMPlayer 7.0.0 usable under Ubuntu, as I much prefer the Ubuntu environment over Windows.