Hiya,

First of all regarding hyperthreading, read this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...867586?lc=2057

Secondly read this:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...4-0d0406fd60ac

And third note that the guest systems can only emulate a 10/100 network
card. (which is usually good enough, as the host will run 1000, and that way
one guest system wont eat up the entire network. - it's a balance of good and
bad.
I cant see from your setup where you have your virtual files located either?

I hope it s you getting a conclusion on your problem, else ask again