Slugglish Vmware Vcentre console on ESXI 4.1

This has bugged me for ages but have found a solution

Go to the VM console and open device manager

























 You will see you are using the Standard VGA graphics Adapter

You need to point to the graphics vmware tools driver located:
C:\program files\common files\vmware\drivers\wddm_video

Restart the VM and bingo - the console will be nice and quick

Windows 7 to VMware converter Error

Getting this stop 0x0000007B error in Windows 7 after a convertion from a physical machine???
It means the Vmware disk controller drivers are not enabled on Windows 7 clone, so this registry hack will enable them

1.Mount the Win7 DVD and boot to it.
2.At the first screen (Language Selection), hit Shift-F10 for a command prompt.
3.Run Regedit.
4.Load the system hive from the VM's disk:

1.Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
2.File > Load Hive
3.Select < c: > \Windows\System32\config\system
4.Regedit will ask for a Key name: Name it something like "asdf"
5.Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\asdf\ControlSet001\Services\intelide
6.Change the data for value "Start" from "3" to "0".
6a.Also repeat for: HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet001/Services/ and edit the "Start" parameter to the corresponding value from the list:

Aliide = 3
Amdide =3
Atapi = 0
Cmdide = 3
iaStorV = 3
intelide = 0
msahci = 3
pciide = 3
viaide = 3
7.Click on asdf and go File > Unload Hive.
8.Exit regedit.
9.Reboot the VM.

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I cloned a windows 7 machine to another computer and had the same blue screen stop error.  I did this and it fixed it

Following the same instructions above but only changing these

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV

 to 0

Hope these help someone