Greg, I haven't experienced your specifi problem since I'm still using VS2008 on XP but I do work exclusively in VMs so I tell you what little relevant iinfo I can offer.
For the mouse jittering, chech the hardware acceleration options (you may have already tried this). No idea where in Win7 but in XP they are in Display Properties (properties on desktop) -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot. For the freezing, things to consider may be: Something may be accessing the VMs files. You may have over allocated RAM to the VM. Even if the VM doesn't actually use all the RAM, just allocating too much can cause this. I've occasionally seen the interface to the VM freeze but the VM itself keeps chugging away in the background. ie, the process that lets you access the VM is seperate to the process actually running the VM. I've had workstation freeze completely so I killed it and when I ran it again, the VM was still running fine. Have you researched possible external factors in your host rather than the VM itself? David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 09:20, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, I’m preparing for the big migration of all of my projects to VS2010, > Framework 4 and Silverlight 4. I built a Win7 in WMWare with the latest > software development installed so I could rebuild and test everything in > parallel with my real work. Unfortunately, problems with the mouse and > stalls in VM are ruining my plans. > > > > Win7 has a terribly “jittery” mouse in the VM which requires the VMWare > drivers be installed to correct the problem. However, the installation of > these drivers causes the VM to freeze dead randomly every 5-10 minutes. It > seems to freeze when I am manipulating opening and closing tree control > nodes in Windows Explorer and the VS2010 solution pane. I spent hours > researching this problem and found that if I only install the mouse and > video drivers then the problem only happens every 20-30 minutes. This is > still unacceptable. > > > > I continue to search for a way of making the Win7 VM stable, but no luck so > far. This isn’t a .NET related problem, but I’d love to hear from anyone > else who has suffered from this problem and solved it. > > > > My other option is to not us a VM and install VS2010, Framework 4 and > Silverlight 4 and all of the supporting kits on my work machine alongside > their previous versions. Cramming everything together gives me a creepy > feeling. Before I consider doing this, I just wanted to ask if this is > acceptable in theory and in practise. Has anyone got everything installed > side-by-side and can report success or side effects. I don’t want to > destroy the machine I use to make a living. > > > > Greg
