Speed Problems with RedHat 9 & VMware

[RifleShaff]

After upgrading my VMware Workstation to the latest version that supports RedHat v9 (Version 4.0.1 | Build: 5289 | 7/21/03) I upgraded my RedHat v8 to v9. Everthing works but the system is about 30% slower. Only one program doesn't that is RealPlayer8. All my other programs work great. Just that the system slowed down for what reason I don't know. Can someone give me a starting point to work from.

 

[miblo]

What is your host OS? I assume windowz something (and not Linux).

Check the taskmanager to see if it really is vmware stealing your process capacity.
If so, check the processes in your guest OS (RH9 in your case) by using 'top' to see which processes are cpu hogs.
When uppgrading to RH9, there might be new services installed by default, not quite sure here. Do you need all of them?
How is your guest-os installed in regards to networking? Host-only, bridged, NAT or what?
Is your networking config working?

When you say there is a 30% performance degradation - how did you measure this? Is it in the host & Guest OS?

If all else fails, check with VMwares own newsgroups at news://news.vmware.com. There are many more RH9/vmware experts lurking around over there...

 

[fluid11]

Try re-installing VMWare tools in each of your guest OS's. You need to do this when you upgrade from VMWare 3 to VMware 4. Boot up RH90 and leave it in text mode. Then in VMware, I think its File - Install VMware Tools. Then in RH90, mount your CDROM and then run the install script to install the tools.

ChrisP