I am running an instance of FC5 as a virtual machine inside VMWare Server which is installed on Windows XP. The performance in gnome is a bit "choppier" than I was hoping for. Is anyone else running this kind of configuration and if so, do you have any performance tips? I know I won't get "native" performance, but I'd like to at least do the best I can.
Also, I can't seem to find where to set the option not to show window contents while dragging.
Tom
Tom Spec wrote:
I am running an instance of FC5 as a virtual machine inside VMWare Server which is installed on Windows XP. The performance in gnome is a bit "choppier" than I was hoping for. Is anyone else running this kind of configuration and if so, do you have any performance tips? I know I won't get "native" performance, but I'd like to at least do the best I can.
Did you install vmware-tools on your guest machine? This improves graphic performance dramatically. Still gnome's graphic libraries are slower than in windows - one of the very few disadvantages.
greets Boris
Tom Spec wrote:
I am running an instance of FC5 as a virtual machine inside VMWare Server which is installed on Windows XP. The performance in gnome is a bit "choppier" than I was hoping for. Is anyone else running this kind of configuration and if so, do you have any performance tips? I know I won't get "native" performance, but I'd like to at least do the best I can.
Also, I can't seem to find where to set the option not to show window contents while dragging.
Tom
The beta VMWware server still has a lot of debug code in that slows things down. The following link may help, it tells you how to turn off the debug ( at least in some versions )
http://www.phunsites.net/wp/2006/05/14/another-way-to-disable-debugging-in-v...
Andy
On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 10:40, Andy Campbell wrote:
I am running an instance of FC5 as a virtual machine inside VMWare Server which is installed on Windows XP. The performance in gnome is a bit "choppier" than I was hoping for. Is anyone else running this kind of configuration and if so, do you have any performance tips? I know I won't get "native" performance, but I'd like to at least do the best I can.
Also, I can't seem to find where to set the option not to show window contents while dragging.
The beta VMWware server still has a lot of debug code in that slows things down. The following link may help, it tells you how to turn off the debug ( at least in some versions )
http://www.phunsites.net/wp/2006/05/14/another-way-to-disable-debugging-in-v...
The release version has been out for a while so you no longer have to do this. You do need to install vmware tools inside the virtual machine and run its configuration script and I've forgotten if that still takes an extra downloaded tool to work with FC5 guests.