[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu 8.04 and VMWare

[Jippen]

Use the vmware server beta. They made some major kernel changes, and
the "stable" version of vmware doesn't work to well. The beta works
great, but it takes a while to get used to the web-based GUI

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Steve Johnson <srj at adnd.com> wrote:
> Hi Lug'ers,
>
>  I recently installed the new Ubuntu (8.04) and so far I like it..  But
>  I ran into one issue.. I downloaded the latest VMWare, and downloaded
>  the latest any-any patch (This is requred to get it to run in ubuntu),
>  and got it all compiled and running all nice and happy.   So I went to
>  install XP Pro into a 8Gig Virtual Machine, and it seemed to be okay,
>  until it tried to format the virtual disk, this took FOREVER, I even
>  rebooted and trued the fast format option.. and it took just as long..
>
>  So I tried to move on forward.. Well it seemed any time the installer
>  was writing to disk it would take forever.. The progress bar would
>  move real slow, and things just took way to loong.. It took about an
>  hour to get from start of install to first reboot, and then when it
>  was loading the XP Pro splash screen, you know how the screen fades in
>  nice and smooth, and the loading progress bar zips on by.. This was
>  REAL REAL slow, like several seconds for each gradient of the fade in
>  process and the progress bar was barely moving..
>
>  Next after a couple minutes it finally gets to where it is installing
>  drivers and such, and the little progress bar in the lower right
>  barely moved.. So, I clicked into the virtual machine, and noticed
>  that when I moved my mouse around (USB Logitech Trackman trackball)
>  that it would cause the progress bar to advance, and seemed to make
>  the disk I/O work faster.. still not fast as I expected..  But it did
>  make a major difference..
>
>  After about 2 hours of this BS, I just shut the VM down and deleted
>  it, and tried again, thinking maybe something was screwy, and also
>  wondered if there was an issue between reading from the CDRom and
>  writing to the disk, so I made an ISO image of the CDRom and mounted
>  that as the CD Drive in VMWare.. Same exact results..
>
>  Anyone have any ideas why this would be happening?  I have VMWare
>  installed on my Ubuntu 7.10 box, and installed XP Pro from the same CD
>  just the other day with out ANY problems (Not pirated here, my work
>  has a site wide license, I can legally install the same copy on 2
>  machines.) the disk I/O was fast, and I'm quite happy with it..  The
>  only difference is that this machine is Ubunto 7.10 and the new
>  install in Ubuntu 8.04, oh and I think the VMWare versions are
>  different.. It's been so long since I installed it on the 7.10 machine
>  that I am not sure if I did it from the VMWare download, or if I
>  installed it via apt.  I'm thinking it is an apt install..   There is
>  no package for 8.04 for vmware anymore, so I had no choice but to
>  install it from the vmware's download site.
>
>  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.  I rarely need Windows,
>  but I do need it for school and work at times, and my goal was to not
>  have to duel boot anymore.
>
>  The computer having the problem is  Dell XPS M1210,  Core2 Duo, 2Gigs
>  Ram, 130G HD (or 120G i cant remember) NVidie 7400Go Video card.  It
>  runs Linux like a champ!  it runs Windows like a champ! :)
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  -Steve
>
>
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