Running VMware6 on Feisty makes everything slow to a crawl
Ahmed Osman
ashex at chipnick.com
Tue Jan 22 00:14:23 GMT 2008
Not necessarily. He reports that running vmware in slackware/debian run
at a good speed, so I wouldn't say it's because it's a single-core.
Plus the fact that it's a single-core doesn't really say much either,
I've run vmware server on a 3Ghz P4 and had no trouble.
If he were having trouble running vmware period, I would say that the
single-core is probably a culprit.
Corey Cohen wrote:
> well, wouldnt the fact that its a single core be part of the reason
> that it is slow?
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 3:45 PM, Ahmed Osman <ashex at chipnick.com
> <mailto:ashex at chipnick.com>> wrote:
>
> The AthlonXP is a single-core processor.
>
> Try checking what is locking the file with fuser
>
>
>
>
> Corey Cohen wrote:
>> is that a dual core machine or no?
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2008 1:52 PM, Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore at gmx.de
>> <mailto:Dexter.Filmore at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>
>> Posted this on user list, no response, possibly a kernel
>> config thing so I'd
>> like to bring it up here:
>>
>> Machine:
>> AthlonXP 3200+ @2.2GHz, 1GB RAM, nForce2 mobo.
>>
>> Operating systems:
>>
>> -Kubuntu 7.04 with 2.6.22 kernel backported from gutsy, X on
>> free r300
>> -debian 4.0r2, kernel 2.6.18-k7, X on free r300
>> -Slackware 11, kernel 2.6.17.9 <http://2.6.17.9> custom, X on
>> ATi fglrx
>>
>> VMware6 installed on all 3 OSses, all can access the same
>> VMs, I used the same
>> WinXP on a 384MB RAM VM on all three environments, latest
>> VMtools installed.
>>
>> Results:
>> Slackware performs blazing fast, restoring the suspended XP
>> takes 1 or 2
>> seconds before Windows responds, about 15-30 seconds before
>> the VM is fully
>> restored. Suspend happens instantaneous, less than a second.
>> Can switch between VMware and other apps with neglectible
>> performance impact.
>>
>> Debian: similar, resume takes a little longer, up to about a
>> minute, then
>> everything is smooth, suspend instantaneous as on Slackware.
>> Can switch between VMware and other apps with neglectible
>> performance impact
>> as on Slack. Kaffeine, Opera with Java, Google Earth all
>> running, all fine,
>> video encoder running in the VM.
>>
>> Kubuntu: VMware complains that /dev/rtc is not available
>> because it is used by
>> anothe application. lsof shows nothing accessing rtc. Hints
>> on VMware site
>> unuseful: this cpu doesn't even have throttling.
>>
>> Resuming the suspended WinXP VM takes between 4 and 5 minutes
>> (!!).
>> The system performs afterwards as if it was runnign on 256MB
>> and with L2 cache
>> diabled. Working impossible. Suspending the VM takes about
>> 20-30 seconds.
>>
>>
>> Useful hints on where to investigate most welcome.
>>
>> 2.6.22 was backported to Feisty by me due to USB issues with
>> the stock 2.6.20,
>> but tests show same behaviour with 2.6.20.
>>
>> Dex
>>
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