Ubuntu: VMWare Runs Slow on NTFS Partition
by Craig Mayhew on Oct.03, 2009, under Guides/Fixes, Linux/Ubuntu
I found the ntfs-3g process was using 100% cpu. Apparently VMWARE can thrash the hard drive so the workaround is to set “mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE” in the virtual machines .vmx file and VMware will perform faster.
