My colleagues ans ID are using VMWare player for development. We use the vm on a separated usb disk. The problem we have is that closing the vm takes half an hour and sometimes more than one hour. When closing, the taskmanager diaplays a 100% disk activity all the time. The problem is occuring on pc's using usb2 and usb3. Even on an usb 3 communication with a 7200rpm disk. The problems haven't occured with a vm stored on the internal disk.
On the disk there is enough of space.
It looks like there is some kind of writing conflict only when closing the vm. The vm is closed by shutting down the os on the vm.
The host is Windows 7 and the vm OS are mostly Windows 7. The host has 8Gb on memory and changing the vm's memory from 1Gb to 6Gb doen't change anything.
Can anyone help me solving this problem?
Thank you.