VMware Experience

[h3nd]

Hi guys,

I've got VMware installed in my windows and I installed linux mandrake in that VMware, and I have experience when I trying to type something in the console or running program. I always have delay about 0.5-1 secs.

Just wondering whether you guys have the same problem when using VMware ? if so, why is that ? because my processor speed or what ?

 

[Trevoke]

This isn't a Linux server related question, but a VMWare issue, which probably belongs in a Windows forum.. ?

Regardless -- how much RAM do you have and how much RAM did you dedicate to your VM ?

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[QatQat]

HI there,

this has got nothing to do with your linux installation, although I must say (risking to start a distro war) that Mandrake is a very slow distribution and therefore, on virtual hardware, it may perform even slower. nevertheless that delay is not to be blamed on Mandrake.


I have experienced the same with VMWare 4; normally a virtual machine running on VM4 would react with a half second delay,especially during the first 2-3 minutes after boot.

My problem disappeared installing VMWare 5.

My suggestion is, anyway, to never run a heavy installation on VMWare; make sure that your linux install is lean, possibly headless (no X windows), and it will run perfectly.


Cheers

QatQat

Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

 

[Kozusnik]

No flame war?!?

Just kidding. I've actually only ran VMWare 4 in the opposite direction. I found that running a Win2K VM on (Mandrake) linux runs very well. Of course I allot 256 MB of RAM to the VM.

I'd have to agree with Trevoke. The amount of ram used will allow better performance. If you only allot 64 MB for Linux, performance will be diminished.

Although I love Mandrake and have found it to be my favorite distro, if you can only devote a smaller amount of ram, maybe try gentoo, slackware, damn small linux, or knoppix.

Good luck,
Mark

 

[QatQat]

Hi Kozusnik,

I do not know if it is true or not but I think that VMWare 5 uses resources better.

I have migrated machines to the new version and allocated the same amount of memory and they definitely perform faster.


QatQat

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