After I migrated VirtualBox images to VMWare’s VMDK format, I noticed that Windows Server 2008 takes much longer to boot in VMWare Fusion (2.0.1) than in VirtualBox. As I was swamped with work, I didn’t have time to investigate. I was using a MacBook at the time.
Now, on my shiny new iMac, it was still booting slow – now this just didn’t feel right. I noticed in the release notes that this issue can be worked around by converting the image back to hardware format 6 (whatever that means). And lo and behold, it boots really fast now. Go to Virtual Machine menu and choose Downgrade Virtual Machine and you’ll be set. Hope that helps!
