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I have Visual Studio 2013 running in Windows 8.1 in Parallels on OS X. I prefer to use text editors on the OS X side. The project files are stored on the Windows drive. Before I had them on the OS X drive which was accessible in Windows as a network drive. Unfortunately, Windows cannot detect file changes on a network drive so I had to move the files to the Windows C: drive. This helped with Visual Studio picking up on the changes made in Sublime Text for Mac but introduced this new issue of sporadic freezing while accessing files (opening, saving, moving).

Windows 10 PC Running Very Slow all of a Sudden 'I've had this PC for about 1.5 years now, and it's always worked fine and fast.Then about a week ago it started being very slow suddenly. From launching an application (Outlook, Chrome, etc.) to right-clicking. Jan 24, 2017  I took the same brand new Win 10 install, imported it to Parallels and ran it from there. Sorry VMware, but Parallels in Coherence mode with 2GB of ram is UNREAL! I have Outlook 2016 with 2 plugins, which is why I don't use native Office for Mac, and Notepad++ open all day.

These simple operations may take up to a few minutes instead of mere seconds with this setup. Any ideas on how to configure this to be snappy or at least not so excruciatingly slow? I suspect the windows 8.1 virtual drive is the culprit. Typically, whenever you virtualize an environment, you have some overhead to deal with(which will slow down the speed of saving and reading files from within a virtual environment like Parrallels). What little information I was able to find on the web indicates that Parrallels doesn't offer any type of disk access beyond installing to the virtual drive(in your case, you've created a windows 8 Guest system which I imagine is running NTFS on a virtual hard disk created in Parrallels).

There is some discussion of using bootcamp. See the link for specifics. In a nut shell, you'll either have to deal with it being slow or you'll have to re-build the guest OS(windows8) using the bootcamp process described in the link. True raw access to a sata drive in a mac will be faster than a virtualized drive created in parrallels. Also, a more obvious item to check would be software updates for the mac and for parrallels. Something may have been patched recently.

Contact parrallels directly. They wrote the software, they would best know what internal mechanisms are used to write data to their virtual drives.

Pros: Parallels work great as you can work as if you were on a Windows from your mac. In order to launch Windows you don't even need to restart your machine, you just need to run Parallels and it will open on as any other application does. You can maximise the window so that you can switch from your mac to Windows with just a swipe. It will feel as if you were running Windows at all its effects. You can fine-tune how you want to distribute your machine's resources while running Parallels, so that you can give more or less to one or the other depending on your needs. Another option is to have Windows in integration mode, that means that you won't see Windows as a separate application running on your mac but integrated on it so that you can run Windows applications from your mac directly while running Parallels like this. Cons: The integration mode is good but sometimes it can be a bit confusing if you're not used to it.

In my opinion, I prefer the separate mode and switch from one screen to the other. If you need Windows to run applications that need a lot of resources it can really slow your mac down as once you run Parallels, the defined resources will be fully dedicated to it and therefore not available to your mac. Pros: Parallels desktop allows creating as many virtual computers as you need (disk space permitting;-) ).

If you need to run a piece of serious SW available only for Windows or Linux, just create the respective virtual computer. With Windows and Coherence, you even have the Windows applications seamlessly available from the familiar Mac desktop. I use to run it the Lotus Approach, legacy, yet still unbeaten powerful database GUI and report/form creator for dummies. Alternatively, if you just want to test something without putting your Mac at risk, create an isolated throwaway virtual machine, test your new fancy SW, and if anything happens (or you just don't like it anymore), discard the virtual machine. Cons: Parallels could be a bit sluggish if there is not enough physical memory and processing power available, this makes virtualization of computationally demanding tasks a bit difficult.

But in most case you won't notice your Gnumeric is not running in MacOS but in virtual Ubuntu. Overall: It enables me running my favorite Approach on my Mac and whenever I need to test something as if from a different computer, I just open one ready virtual machine, log in, and it's done. Pros: Working on a mac on a daily basis is great but it's true that some applications are not available for this OS and you need to turn to a Windows machine. You can do that very easily with Parallels.