VMWARE slowness

[BlackVortex]

So I was using VMWARE happily for a few months, all was great. I hadn't used it for a couple of months, then when I run it again suddenly it was slow ! And I mean slow ! Even the starting BIOS screen goes slow.

After I couldn't fix that problem (tried reinstalling etc.) I gave up with VMWARE and installed Virtual PC 2007 sp1, absolutely SLOW !!! Also I installed virtualbox, managed to kinda slowly setup XP, now it is also SLOW while loading the gues OS.

What the hell is this weirdness, I have an athlon x2 4200+ , 2gb RAM and plenty of hard disk space, wht changed all of a sudden ? Other high-performance applications, like games, work fine, so there is nothing wrong with my PC's performance.

This is a long-shot, but since the problem is consistent nd shared between all of these virtualization products, does anyone have any idea what is going on ? What is common between them ? ... that's where the problem must be.

[Vortex]

Did you try to move your virtual machines to another hard disc? This should improve the performance.

[BlackVortex]

Did you try to move your virtual machines to another hard disc? This should improve the performance.

I've thought about it, but it doesn't make sense, it is too slow ! The BIOS screen text loads slow, I can see the lines getting drawn  ....