Ubuntu is slow, mouse flickers in vmware

[Eberhard Roloff]

tchomby schrieb:
> Hey,
> 
> in order to record some Ubuntu screencasts using Camtasia I'm running 
> Ubuntu in Windows XP as a virtual machine, using VMWare. (I need Windows 
> to run Camtasia, I did try creating the screencasts using linux tools 
> but it wasn't going to work, long story.) It works, but the problem is 
> that Ubuntu is quite slow under VMWare, and the mouse pointer flickers 
> whenever something is loading, even though I do have vmware-tools 
> installed. This is an Ubuntu 8.04 virtual machine by the way. Any ideas?
> 
yes, maybe you can provide some more details:
-which windows version?
-which base hardware?
-how much RAM does your machine have=
-how much ram did you reserve for the ubuntu vm?

Kind regards
Eberhard