Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 editor performance fix running on a virtual machine

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• It's VS2010 or your VM problem?
  

• Which virtualization software are you using? I would think that it wouldn't be a problem with Windows Virtual PC because I've heard it uses RDP under the hood which if I recall, WPF will render locally.
  
  Of course I could be totally wrong. I am about to install it now on my physical machine which I'm sure I'll be regretting. :)
  

• As I mentioned, it's VMWare (Workstation 6.5 to be precise). The problem is with WPF apps running on VMWare, not specific to Visual Studio aside from the fact that it's now a WPF app. I don't know if Virtual PC has the same issue, I don't use it.
  

• Whoops... I have a habit of reading every other sentence in blogs.
  

• What is the OS you use in your virtual machine?
  
  I want to try VS2010 on a new VM and I'm debating which OS to install as guest.
  
  (In my current dev VM I use VS2008 over Windows Server 2003)
  

• I was using Windows 7 in the VM (as the guest)
  

• Kevin, thanks!
  
  This solves the problem for Win7 on VMWare 6.5
  

• I have VM Ware Fusion 3.0. I don't see Avalon.Graphics in my registry. But I am experiencing the same choppyness. What do I do?
  

• The Avalon.Graphics key doesn't exist by default, you have to create it.
  

• I did that and it worked like a charm. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
  

• The key was not present in my VM. I have created this and set it to 1. Still did not see any improvement. Any other ideas please??????????
  

• I suspect this hack will be a FAIL for WP7 Emulator work, as Emulator requires WDDM v1.1. Otherwise, it works for me on an old laptop (3 years) with WDDM v1.0.
  
  With my VM guest W7x64 configuration running VS2010 RTMrel look great without the registry hack. But Expression Blend 4 RC fonts can only be read in VM using the registry hack.