[COLUG] VMWare Server vs. CentOS??

[Austin Godber]

I would try a VM on not on the USB disk to see the difference.  I have  
had strange problems with external USB instability that I attributed  
to my hardware combined with Ubuntu 7.10 (did not have the same issue  
with Fedora 7 under the same circumstances).  Really, I don't think it  
should matter.

Did the guest completely boot?  Was the guest itself hung on something?

 From my experience, an idling guest on a similarly equipped machine  
will sit at just under 5% cpu.

Austin

On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
>
> Howdy Folks,
>
> Has anyone attempted to run VMWare Server (the free download  
> version) on CentOS 5.1?
>
> I have a moderately powerful box (Pentium 2.4 GHz, 2G Ram) that  
> ought to be able to handle VMWare.  So, I installed VMWare using  
> their install utility (it compiled a kernel module as well).  I  
> created a VM on an external USB disk, and started it... and all it  
> did was peg the processor at 100%.  Thinking this was temporary, I  
> let it sit, and 30 minutes later it was at the same place.
>
> Was this because it was an external USB disk?  I assigned 1.2G of  
> ram to this new machine.
>
> I have a work laptop with a similar processor (same speed, dual  
> core) and identical amount of RAMm running XP Professional.  VMWare  
> is very snappy on this machine.
>
> Thanks,
> -J
>
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