vmware & breezy

[Upayavira]

chris dunn wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
>> On 10/26/05, Lars Noldan <lnoldan at jdrweb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to inquire if anyone on this list has sucessfully installed
>>> vmware 5.0 on breezy badger.
>>
>>
>>
>> I just updated our wiki with instructions how to install vmware on
>> breezy: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VmWare
>>
>> Please mail me if there are still questions open.
>>
>> -- 
>> regards,
>>     Reinhard
> 
> 
> This is good, and has been followed. VMware 5.0 seems to run with no
> difficulty under Ubuntu as a host.
> 
> Then Windows XP SLOW was installed as a guest on the Ubuntu / VMware host.
> 
> The installation took about 8 hours which is a tad more than I thought
> it took under Slackware previously. Unfortunately I need to run WXP.
> 
> Having successfully installed WXP as a guest it now takes approximately
> one hour to reach the start button, and any attempt to actually do
> anything from there takes even longer.
> 
> Has anybody else had similar difficulty or am I alone?

I'm happily using VMWare on Hoary, and apart from large compiles, it is
pretty snappy. However, I have 2Gb of RAM. When I was accidentally
running on 800Mb of ram, it was a real pig. Could RAM be your problem?

Regards, Upayavira