[KLUG Members] VMWare 5.5 Stability

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > I am looking into utilizing VMWare for our developers whom run linux as a host operating system to be able to utilize VMWare 5.5
> > > to have windows installed. We currently have two developers utilizing the 30 day workstation trial. One user is running Debian
> > > Unstable/Testing hybrid and it works great. The other is running the same but on a 64-bit machine (although running in 32-bit
> > > compatibility mode) and he has been able to get TinyFeather Linux to install in the VMWare Workstation, but Windows continually
> > > gets stuck at different points during the installation.
> > > Anyone here vouch for VMWare on debian as a host for Windows 2000, Windows XP ? Any known issues and known workarounds ? Any other
> > > distro's that you run as a host that work great?
> > We have a Windows 2000 TSE that runs in VMware for ~100 users, the host
> > is SuSe Pro 9.3.  I'm running Windows 2000 Pro and SuSe 10.1b8 in VMWare
> > 5.5.0 build-18463 on SuSe 10.0 right now;  use it all day, it is
> > completely stable.
> Interesting. Just FYI, I'm running Suse 9.3 with VMPlayer 1.0.0 on a
> system with 512M ram. My VM has WinXP installed. It ran great for a week
> and then both WinXP and Suse 9.3 started to crawl whenever the VM was
> running.
> I wonder if it is a memory issue and/or that I'm using VMPlayer instead
> of VMWorkstation.

Nope, I've seen this on our SuSe 9.3 host;  it does get really slow
after you reboot the VM a few times.  This doesn't seem to happen on
SuSe 10.0.  (I'd be more prone to blame glibc than the kernel, but
whatever.... upgrade and the problem seems to go away.)  It hasn't been
a problem for us since I copy the VM to my laptop, do all the maint in
my own copy of VMware and then copy it back - then I "shutdown -r 02:00"
- so the box reboots at 2am.
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