vmware workstation is beating up my disk!
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 02:36:57 UTC 2007
On 1/16/07, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Anyone else running VMWare workstation in FC6 (x86)? I've noticed
> > that whenever vmware is running (WinXP), the disk is getting polled
> > every other second non-stop. it sounds like little men are marching
> > around its so loud & annoying. Its not a memory/swap thing as I've
> > got 3GB of RAM, and vmware has access to a large chunk of it.
>
> What version of VMware Workstation are you running?
5.5.3
>
> I had been running 5.5 on RHELv4 with XP as a guest without problems. Now I
> am running the Beta of Workstaion 6 without problems.
>
> In your preferences what do you have set for memory management? Do you have
> shared folders enabled and tried disabling them? Do you have many snapshots?
I've got 2 snapshots. Shared folders are disabled already. I'm not
sure what you mean by memory management
>
> Do you have only one guest XP? If so, can you possibly build a new one from
> scratch as a test?
yes, just one right now. I suppose I could create another, although i
don't really have the time for that immediately.
>
> Also, have you asked the same question on the Workstation forums of VMware?
> They are normally very helpful.
I haven't yet, but I'll be going there next. thanks
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