From: Giovanni Dicanio on
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> Agreed. I still think VS2010 sucks (performance wise) - it seems to
> take ages to load on my test VM. I can get VS2005/8 loaded and working
> before the splash screen on VS2010 has thought about going away.

Dave: you may want to try the publicly available VS2010 RC on the "real
metal" (no VM).
I don't think the performance is bad...

Giovanni



From: David Lowndes on
>Dave: you may want to try the publicly available VS2010 RC on the "real
>metal" (no VM).

I don't - at least not until RTM :)

I run all dev tools under VMs these days - it makes it easy when I
have to use alternate versions without having to worry about whether
they'll fight each other.

Dave
From: Bo Persson on
David Lowndes wrote:
>> Dave: you may want to try the publicly available VS2010 RC on the
>> "real metal" (no VM).
>
> I don't - at least not until RTM :)
>
> I run all dev tools under VMs these days - it makes it easy when I
> have to use alternate versions without having to worry about whether
> they'll fight each other.
>

Right, but how do you then know if the performance problem is with the
tools or the VM?

I agree with Giovanni - on a Windows 7 with plenty of RAM, VC2010 RC
is not bad at all.


Bo Persson





From: Joseph M. Newcomer on
I'm running 2010 under VMWare WS6.5. But as I said, everything is a bit slow. And it
also slows down my other apps running on the base machine.
joe
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:26:33 +0000, David Lowndes <DavidL(a)example.invalid> wrote:

>>I found my VM-based stuff to be unbelievably slow, slower even than the non-VM-based
>>applications. I don't know what I need to configure in my VM for better performance, but
>>even my editor is sluggish in the VM.
>
>I don't generally have any noticeable performance problems in VMs
>(VMWare WS7), except the ones with VS2010 installed.
>
>Dave
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From: David Lowndes on
>Right, but how do you then know if the performance problem is with the
>tools or the VM?

Only by contrasting performance with a similar VM on the same host. I
know it's not a reliable method, but it's the way I choose to do
things these days, and it's definitely much slower than VS2005.

>I agree with Giovanni - on a Windows 7 with plenty of RAM, VC2010 RC
>is not bad at all.

It's not bad on my i7 machine in a VM, but in a VM on a lesser capable
host, I find it's quite noticeably slower. It may be the straw that
breaks the camel's back on that machine, I've tried increasing the RAM
allocation but that didn't seem to have much benefit.

Dave