Performance of VMWare Fusion on a Mac Mini

By GEL2020, 28 September, 2016

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I am running VMware Fusion on a Mac Mini. I am using VMware Fusion to launch Windows 7 and applications such as Microsoft Word. I am using Jaws to access Windows 7. The performance of Windows in general and Jaws in particular is very slow and funky on this installation. Has anyone had good success with VMware on a Mac Mini running Jaws in Windows 7? Do you have any tips for improving the performance? Are there ways of customizing Fusion to improve performance?

Thanks for any suggestions!

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By Andy B. on Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 19:43

What kind of hardware do you have? Memory, HD, processors?

By GEL2020 on Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 19:43

In reply to by Andy B.

Here's the description of the Mac Mini I'm using:

MacMini late 2012
2.6 GHz IntelCore i7
16 GBs Ram
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

With this configuration, Windows 7 and Jaws running in VMware Fusion seems too slow and funky to be useful. Any comments or suggestions you may have will be much appreciated.

Thanks!
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:41 AM,

By splyt on Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 19:43

Look for ways to expand your vm ram memory. The way you describe now is leading me to think that may be the ram memory reserved to Windows is low what makes windows write page files to the disk and your disk is probably slow I assume you are not using ssd so if you give like 4 gig of memory to the machine it will work