Hi, I've been using Fusion for a little over a year, and while vmware has grown slower and slower over time, yesterday it started pegging the CPU and has effectively become unusable.
With zero programs started in the guest and it showing 99% idle in the task manager the host OS shows the vmware process using 20% CPU consistently. I've attached a screenshot of the activity and task manager showing this. When any programs are started in the guess the CPU quickly goes to 100% rendering both host and guest unusable.
I've applied all updates for OSX, Fusion and windows, degragmented the guest disk, increased memory allocated to the guest, tried both 1 and 2 cores, reinstalled vmware tools, turned off 3D acceleration, and all settings possible to attempt to get the CPU usage to decrease, yet nothing has helped. If it helps, the OSX version is 10.7.5(11G63) and the vmware version is 4.1.4(900582) and the guest is Windows 7 SP1 64 bit.
Could anyone suggest a next step? Thanks!