Projects slow to level ~+25 minutes when updating db on a vm

I have a vm setup at our data center running win7 x64 sp1 Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690 @ 2.9GHz x 2 that has P6 v7 SP3 default installed on it with SQL 2005 . I have a few clients local application pointed to this vm and it works ok but they recently complained of long leveling function times. On their local db it takes about less than 2-3 minutes. When pointed to the vm they stated it took over 25 minutes to finish saving its changes. I have used this setup before only, using a machine setup locally on their