GhislainG :
You left out a lot of important info. Is your laptop responsive when using the host OS? Is it connected to the charger or running on battery? What power plan are you using? Are VMware tools installed? What version of VMware workstation (9 or 10)? Is the hard disk activity light on as soon as you click the local server tab? If it takes 10-15 seconds for it to open, then something is very busy and you need to determine if it's your hard disk or another device.
come on dude!! i know you're trying to help me, but plz, list all what you want from me and i will gladly tell you. but each time you ask something, i answer, then you come again with more questions!!
yeah my laptop IS responsive when i leave the VM, its just the VM thats killing me. I'm going to give the full scenario now, if you have a solution or a hint then plz tell me, if you don't, well thats fine:
my processor have 8 threads, SO, i turn on 1 virtual machine, winserver2012. i give it 2 processors = 2 threads, 2 GB RAM or more sometimes, and no matter how many i put in or how i balance vm with the host, i get the same results.
i run my laptop while its plugged in with high power performance, AND no i'm not running anything else beside the VM and maybe google chrome like i'm doing right now.
its workstation 10 and its updated and i'm using the right settings and everything is configured fine.
now thats the whole scenario, as i said before, pc's with lesser specs have shown better results than mine while my pc have much better specs.