vmware & breezy

[Steve]

On 10/27/05, Upayavira <uv at odoko.co.uk> wrote:
> 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

Hi,

I run VMware Workstation 5.0 on Ubuntu Hoary. I have 512MB of RAM on
an AMD AthlonXP 2500+ and an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard (NVidia NForce2
chipset).

I run WinXPPro in VMware with default allocation of 192MB RAM, and it
is QUICK. This is even with large spreadsheets (>10MB) in excel, large
Visio drawings (>10MB), AutoCAD drawings, etc. Firefox in XP as well
with many tabs open. Sure it is not quite as fast (in calculations,
etc.) as booting into native WinXPPro OS, but there is no noticeable
latency when moving around and opening apps.

Did you successfully install VMware Tools in the Guest OS? Are you
really low on RAM (as Upayavira mentioned)? I can't think of any other
reasons it would be THAT slow... what CPU do you have? What type of
partition did you install the Guest OS on? Did you install it on a
networked drive?

Good luck... I just wanted to share my experience with VMware so you
know that it *is* supposed to work.

-Steve.
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