vmware + visual studio 2013 kernel debugging - debugging

To develop window driver I make vs 2013 + vmware debugging environment.
My pc spec is good.
When i use win7 normally in vmware, it's performance is good.
But once i start debugging, it show very bad performance in vmware, not host pc. Host pc is not bad.
Even I can't make folder in foreground of vmware.
I also use virtualKD + pure windbg. It's same...
My processor is i5, and ram is 8G. I allocate 2 processor and 2G to vmware.
Why is debugging performace very bad?
I must develop driver within a few day... I have no time.

Pretty straightforward, 2GB isn't enough RAM. Give at least 4.

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Delphi slow compiling on Windows 10

Somedays ago i have updated from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
I use Delphi 2007 and Delphi XE in a daily basis, and i've noticed that in both IDEs the normal use seems to be a lot slower than it was in Windows 8.1. Compiling a project seems to take more time than it took previously.
I don't know if it could be the cause but i use Windows in a virtual environment with Parallels. But everything in Win 8 seems to be more fluid.
I don't have any anti-virus and Windows Defender is disabled.
I also noticed that when i compile a project, the CPU never goes higher than 40%, so it seems maybe Delphi is not using all available CPU power for some reason.
My machine is a Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM / Core i7 / SSD. The virtual machine has 3GB of RAM because i use the machine only to Delphi, no more programs opened at the same time. Used memory never reaches more than 2GB.
Does anyone noticed this problem ? Anything i could do to improve ?
Thanks in advance !

Windows Phone 8 SDK crash, mainboard issue

Today i tryed to install wp8 sdk and it installed successfully. but when i'm trying to open visual studio my pc going crash and restart every time. I think its mainboard v-hiper problem or something else. my pc informations
Packard Bell TJ75
CPU : I5 430M
Ram : 3 GB
Graphics : HD 5650 1 GB
BIOS : Phoenix Tec. LTD
how can i fix that problem ?
-Thanks,
Sorry for my english.
What is the crash? A bluescreen? And what codes? Does system event log say anything interesting?
I don't think Visual Studio will try to start the phone emulator until you actually try to debug a phone project in it, so I don't see the immediate connection to Hyper-V.
Does your system crash when you open Visual Studio with no active project? That might absolve Hyper-V.
Alternatively, can you create some other virtual machine image (e.g, from Ubuntu or another Windows), and try booting that one? If your host machine crashes when you do that, then it would implicate Hyper-V.
Windows can crash if it gets too tight on system RAM, and 3G of RAM is not very generous. Both Visual Studio and Hyper-V use a lot of RAM, so you might indeed have problems running them both at the same time.

virtualization and visual studio 2010

Is it possible using windows 7 or windows server 2008 to create 5 VMWare virtual machines
so that 5 developers can use them using thin clients to work with
Visual Studio 2008/2010 with all components (sql server express, IIS etc).
what can be the options and the hardware specs for server and clients?
I am looking forward for all opinions.
Thanks and Regards.
It's certainly possible as long as you have enough cores, RAM and Windows/VS licenses. I often use Hyper-V for testing different Visual Studio installations, though I haven't had more than 2 running at the same time. I think you can pull this off, but you'll probably want 16GB of RAM and an 8-core processor. I'm not sure what problems you might run into with VMWare, but I think it would work with Hyper-V.
Good luck!

Which hardware for using Vs.NET 2008/2010 decently?

(Hope to be non OT)
Hi, i'm a little exasperated about running vs.net 2008 on an acer aspire with an intel t2350.
I know, this hardware is not the "last" and the best we can find on the market. So i'm thinking to buy a new notebook.
For your experience, which type of processor i can buy ?
I found, here in italy, acer notebook between 350-500 euros with t4400 and 2-3 gb ram.
Is it enough to have a good "working experience" with vs (with good i intend not to wait 10-20 seconds when i switch from asp.net design to asp.net source code) ?
Any answer is appreciated
I think it relies in the weight of the solution you're working on.
Switching from asp design to source code is really slow. Personally, I had bad experiences and I don not find productive using the design view. I used VS2008 in machines with a really good hardware configuration and this 'switching' still slow, it must be a bug.
In this link you can find the 'official' info that you're looking for.
Also I found that there was an effort to reduce that loading time, but in my opinion, is not enough.
I think this belongs in SuperUser forum.
Here are the minumum requirements for:
VS 2010
VS 2008:
Computer with a 1.6 GHz or faster
processor Visual Studio 2008 can be
installed on the following operating
systems: Windows Vista® (x86 & x64) -
all editions except Starter Edition
Windows® XP (x86 & x64) with Service
Pack 2 or later - all editions except
Starter Edition Windows Server® 2003
(x86 & x64) with Service Pack 1 or
later (all editions) Windows Server
2003 R2 (x86 and x64) or later (all
editions) 384 MB of RAM or more (768
MB of RAM or more for Windows Vista)
2.2 GB of available hard-disk space 5400 RPM hard drive
Just about any machine with 2GB of RAM will run the actual Visual Studio editor just fine.
However, development systems rarely stop at just a single editor. You might typically have two or three instances of the editor, plus a web browser or two, a task management system, a web server and a database engine, and maybe an additional VM or two. Not to mention power left over to actually run, debug, and compile the app you're working on.
Because the load here is typically spread over several apps/processes, a development machine can generally make pretty good use of a quad code processor with at least 4GB of RAM.
If you're developing with less than 4gb and a 64 bit OS you're living in 1996.
64bit, 4gb of memory.
I find using a Solid State hard drive do alot for the performance. That and 4gb of ram and a decent CPU and you a good to go!

Visual Studio on Mac Book Pro

I just bought a MacBookPro (13", 250HD, and 4GB Ram) because, among other things, I would like to write iPhone Apps.
I need, anyway, to use VS2010 so I think about installing Sun Virtual Box (I've used and I like it) to run Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010 and SqlExpress2008.
Have you tried it? How many RAM GBs should I reserve for Windows? If I assign 2GB to Windows, will my Mac run fine with the remaining 2GB?
Thanks!
I run Windows 7 and VS 2010 in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook. It has 2GB of RAM, and I've allocated 1GB to the virtual machine. It can be a bit slow at times, but not massively
I've been running Windows XP and Visual Studio in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro for about a year. I've found that allocating 2GB to Windows and 2 to OS X seems to work well. Everything runs smoothly as long as you don't try to run too much in the host OS (don't try running Mail, iTunes, Firefox, etc all at the same time). I've not run into any trouble running a slew of apps in the VM.
All that being said, I've not tried it running Windows 7 and with it's higher RAM requirements I wouldn't be surprised if you ran into issues.

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