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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