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VMware & Vagrant Performance Hacks

28 Apr 2015

I believe I’ve posted on this before, however I think I deleted the gist that contained these bits of info.

Here are some Vagrantfile settings specific to VMware desktop products that will help you eek out a bit more performance.

# VMware Fusion / Workstation
config.vm.provider :vmware_fusion or config.vm.provider :vmware_workstation do |vmware, override|
override.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "nfs"

# Fusion Performance Hacks
vmware.vmx["logging"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["MemTrimRate"] = "0"
vmware.vmx["MemAllowAutoScaleDown"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["mainMem.backing"] = "swap"
vmware.vmx["sched.mem.pshare.enable"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["snapshot.disabled"] = "TRUE"
vmware.vmx["isolation.tools.unity.disable"] = "TRUE"
vmware.vmx["unity.allowCompostingInGuest"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["unity.enableLaunchMenu"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["unity.showBadges"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["unity.showBorders"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["unity.wasCapable"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["vhv.enable"] = "TRUE"
end

The basics of what we’re doing is as follows:

  • Using NFS shared folders
  • Turning off logging
  • Tuning memory settings
  • Turning off unity

Hope this saves you some time.

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