Are you saying that my 2.2GHz cores and 3GB ram aren't fast enough for 7 pro, because ms says that I only need 1GHz and 2BG. Do you think I need to $$$upgrade$$$?
It sounds like you have enough processor, but you need to realize the when your run VM’s like that you’re essentially running multiple computers in the same address space. There’s a setting on the XP VM that tells it how much memory to allocate for the VM. The default is fairly low. If you’re using memory intensive applications in the VM you may need to allocate more memory to it. If it’s constantly paging the swap file, the performance is going to suck. How bad it sucks will depend on how fast and maybe how fragmented your HD is.