…is starting with rebuilding Windows 7 in VMware since my Win7 VM in Parallels has taken to using at least half of my laptop's CPU cycles to do absolutely nothing. The Mac's Activity Monitor shows the Parallels VM process using about half the CPU, even while the Win7 environment's process monitor is showing nearly zero activity.
I thought upgrading from Parallels 6 to 7, just released yesterday, might solve the problem. The only change I could discern is that instead of slamming the CPU continuously, Parallels 7 spikes for a while, then rests for a couple seconds before spiking again, in an endless cycle.
So, I decided to download VMware's Fusion to see if it was any better. I imported the Parallels VM, uninstalled the Parallels Tools, rebooted, yet still saw the same piggish CPU behavior.
Now I'm rebuilding my Win7 environment from scratch in VMware to see if Parallels irreparably horked my Win7 VM, or if there's some problem with OS X Lion that both Parallels and VMware are triggering.
Either way, this is not how I wanted to spend my Friday before a long weekend. I lost a good half of the day to dealing with this—which means I have at least half a day's worth of work to do during what's supposed to be a long weekend. And now I'm wasting a Friday night that I'd much rather be spending with my wife. Call me one grumpy MFer right now.
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