I have a new Dell Precision M4700 with I-7-3940XM processor, 32GB RAM , 250GB SSD and 1TB SATA drives running Windows 7 64bit and am trying to run Windows server 2K8 VMs in VM Workstation 9. After the abysmal performance of my Latitude D600 with 4GB RAM, I imagined this was going to run like the proverbial manure off a hot shovel. However something is just not right, booting the VMs and doing anything inside them is like watching paint dry. VM Tools is installed they have 4GB and 16GB RAM respectively but everything is just grinding to a halt. I have all the VM folders excluded from any AV .
Any pointers would be great
BTW Windows experience index is 6.7 if that is at all relevant