[KLUG Members] VMWare 5.5 Stability

[John Pesce]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 23:14 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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.