[SOLVED] slow host with Win7 guest

Hi all,

I have compiz with various effects enabled on 12.04 with unity shell. it's a 64 bit installation running VM WS 8.0.4 and VMplayer 4.

Starting a Win7-64bit guest in VMware slows down the host considerably, so that it is almost impossible to work productively, even if I'm not actually logged in to the guest but it's just sitting with the login screen.

Running a WinXP-32bit guest is very snappy on both host and guest. Is anyone experiencing something similar and maybe even found a solution (like turning certain effects off)?

Thanks and cheers,
Riko

PS: Using Mint13+Cinnamon as host system does NOT show this behavior ...