Yesterday I saw that VMware Workstation released a new version 7.1.1. I had been using version 6.0.3 all the time. Last month, I heard that the 3D performance of 7.1 was greatly improved, so I couldn't wait to download and install it. The 3D performance was indeed greatly improved, and even Aero could be enabled; but the disk performance dropped seriously. The same situation occurred after installing 7.1.1.
Test environment 1: AMD Athlon X2 4400+, 2G DDR2 800, HD3850, Vista X64 SP2 Ultimate Edition
Test environment 2: Lenovo y460a i3 laptop, WIN7 X64 Ultimate Edition
Create a brand-new virtual machine, hardware environment: version 6.0, memory 256M, hard disk 20G, system selection: Win98
Install the operating system: one Chinese Win95 OSR2 (FAT32 partition) and one NT4.0 (NTFS partition), both as small as possible to facilitate faster testing, and boot with ISO files.
Subjective feelings:
1) Version 6.0.3: The partition formatting process under DOS was very smooth. When installing Win95, the step of "detecting the computer" was carried out very quickly, and the file copying was also very fast. It was all done in less than 20 minutes.
After enabling the DMA mode, starting and running Win95 was also very fast.
When installing NT4, the blue screen after booting from the CD did not exceed 15 seconds and then entered the welcome screen. The system installation process was as smooth as flowing water and did not exceed 10 minutes.
When starting NT4, after "NTDETECT4.0 is detecting hardware", the white dots moved very fast, and after the blue screen, it quickly entered the login prompt.
2) Version 7.1.1: Partition formatting under DOS was much slower, and the hard disk light could be seen flickering intermittently; the same was true when installing Win95, and the progress bars for detecting hardware and copying files moved as slow as snails, with pauses. The entire installation process took more than 30 minutes. When starting the system, the blue sky and white clouds of Win95 stayed for a long time before switching to the screen with the blinking cursor, and it took more than 20 seconds to enter the desktop. After enabling the DMA mode, the improvement was not significant.
The installation speed of NT4 was acceptable, but loading drivers and copying files also slowed down, and there were also pause phenomena. When starting NT4, the speed of the white dots was not very fast either. After the desktop background appeared, the login box appeared after a few seconds.
From the above two points, it was estimated that the running speed of 7.1.1 under the NT kernel was only about 1/3 of that of 6.0.3, and that under the 9X kernel was only 1/5.
The speeds of running the same virtual machine on 6.0.3 and 7.1.1 were like heaven and earth. When using 6.0.3 to run the version 6.0 virtual machine built by 7.1.1, the same feeling was also felt.
Test environment 1: AMD Athlon X2 4400+, 2G DDR2 800, HD3850, Vista X64 SP2 Ultimate Edition
Test environment 2: Lenovo y460a i3 laptop, WIN7 X64 Ultimate Edition
Create a brand-new virtual machine, hardware environment: version 6.0, memory 256M, hard disk 20G, system selection: Win98
Install the operating system: one Chinese Win95 OSR2 (FAT32 partition) and one NT4.0 (NTFS partition), both as small as possible to facilitate faster testing, and boot with ISO files.
Subjective feelings:
1) Version 6.0.3: The partition formatting process under DOS was very smooth. When installing Win95, the step of "detecting the computer" was carried out very quickly, and the file copying was also very fast. It was all done in less than 20 minutes.
After enabling the DMA mode, starting and running Win95 was also very fast.
When installing NT4, the blue screen after booting from the CD did not exceed 15 seconds and then entered the welcome screen. The system installation process was as smooth as flowing water and did not exceed 10 minutes.
When starting NT4, after "NTDETECT4.0 is detecting hardware", the white dots moved very fast, and after the blue screen, it quickly entered the login prompt.
2) Version 7.1.1: Partition formatting under DOS was much slower, and the hard disk light could be seen flickering intermittently; the same was true when installing Win95, and the progress bars for detecting hardware and copying files moved as slow as snails, with pauses. The entire installation process took more than 30 minutes. When starting the system, the blue sky and white clouds of Win95 stayed for a long time before switching to the screen with the blinking cursor, and it took more than 20 seconds to enter the desktop. After enabling the DMA mode, the improvement was not significant.
The installation speed of NT4 was acceptable, but loading drivers and copying files also slowed down, and there were also pause phenomena. When starting NT4, the speed of the white dots was not very fast either. After the desktop background appeared, the login box appeared after a few seconds.
From the above two points, it was estimated that the running speed of 7.1.1 under the NT kernel was only about 1/3 of that of 6.0.3, and that under the 9X kernel was only 1/5.
The speeds of running the same virtual machine on 6.0.3 and 7.1.1 were like heaven and earth. When using 6.0.3 to run the version 6.0 virtual machine built by 7.1.1, the same feeling was also felt.
