[COLUG] VMWare Server vs. CentOS??

[Angelo McComis]

I run VMware Server.on CentOS 4 64bit, with no problems... But that wasn't your question.  Have you tried with a non-USB virtual disk?

All you have to do is create a new VM, give it a 1gb disk, choose not to allocate all of it now (if you're tight on space) and see if the vm will power on.  

Try creating another vm on an external usb disk, see if that one will power on.


-angelo

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Kramer <josh at globalherald.net>

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:25:11 
To:colug432 at colug.net
Subject: [COLUG] VMWare Server vs. CentOS??



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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