Slow MySQL in VMWare, but Apache works ok

Slow MySQL in VMWare, but Apache works ok

I have OSX running VMWare with W7 Pro. This machine is configured to
bridge the network adapter, so it's in the same network of OSX but with a
different local IP. I installed Apache and MySQL, and I use virtual hosts;
so far, so good. Any virtual hosts that I create that don't use MySQL
(just static HTML or PHP sites) load really fast on OSX's browsers, but
sites that need to use MySQL take a long time to load. I've investigated a
lot (as far as my language understanding allows) and the only solution
that worked partially is to use
skip-name-resolve
This accelerated the loading time from 10 seconds to 8 or 7, but it's
still annoying for development, and more if other sites load immediately.
I appreciate any help you could give me.