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User profile for user: Lotus001
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VMware Fusion running very slow after upgrade to Yosemite

iMac mid 2011 - intel. I upgraded to OS X Yosemite ver 10.10. I am running VMware Fusion Version 7.0.1. My VM is XP with MS Money as the app in question. (I know - old school). The VM is very slow to start and MS Money is so slow it is unusable. I read on the VM site to re-install Yosemite. I did. VM and MS Money started and were very fast - until I shut my iMac down. Upon startup I am getting a progress bar under the gray screen with the Apple. Takes about 30 seconds to boot and to get to a login. When I try to start my VM it is back to being unusable. I feel sure I could reinstall Yosemite and it would be fine again, but I would never be able to shut down - only put it to Sleep mode. It is like something is not "hooking" during the instal. Any ideas?

VMware-OTHER, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 2, 2014 11:42 AM

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User profile for user: etresoft
etresoft
User level: Level 9
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Nov 3, 2014 5:33 AM in response to Lotus001

It is probably re-indexing your disk or something. I wrote a little diagnostic program to help show what might be causing these problems. Download EtreCheck from http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck, run it, and paste the results here. EtreCheck is perfectly safe to run, does not ask for your password to install, and is signed with my Apple Developer ID.



Disclaimer: Although EtreCheck is free, there are other links on my site that could give me some form of compensation, financial or otherwise.


PS: You can also just go to Activity Monitor > Show All Processes > Sort by CPU to see which process is taking up your CPU. Of course, if that doesn't reveal anything interesting, you'll have to go back to my first suggestion.

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User profile for user: swalker75
swalker75
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Nov 3, 2014 6:34 AM in response to Pindar

Thank you Justan!


Your link SOLVED my issue and I repost that information here:


Correct Answer by dariusd on Oct 22, 2014 6:25 AM

You've bumped into an Apple bug, affecting all hypervisor programs running on Yosemite on mid-2011 iMacs. Apple is aware of the issue.


You can work around it by opening Terminal, and running the following command:


sudo nvram boot-args=debug=0x10


Then, restart your Mac. Fusion should then perform normally.


Cheers,

--

Darius

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VMware Fusion running very slow after upgrade to Yosemite

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