VMwareWorkstation 5 Beta

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:47 -0800, alan wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Mercury Morris wrote:
> 
> > I would post this to the VMware Community Discussion,
> > but I'm afraid that it would expose an email address.

<snip...>

> > Installation is smooth, but after that, the ride gets quite bumpy.
> > Starting a guest results in a never-ending series of messages
> > about waiting for a CoreDump.  The failing process has to be
> > killed.  After applying a work-around for this problem (by setting
> > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.8) you learn that the Beta has been
> > built with DEBUG permanently set ON.  You can't turn it off.
> > The result: Guests run so slow, you think the Beta has died.
> 
> I thought the coredumps were just a problem with the Athlon64 I am using.
> 
> Oh well...  Thanks for the info.

Actually, according to forum discussions on VMware's site, this is an
issue with permissions - possibly SELinux. Launching a guest OS as root
seems to get rid of the problem.

Cheers,

Chris

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