...and by older games, I'm running CS:Source, CS 1.6 & UT 2004 - all at 1280x800 and "default" quality settings. 18 hours ago
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@deanlisenby i can imagine. I had that same mess a few nights ago searching for that VGA cable I just knew I had (finally found it too :-) ) 20 hours ago
Thanks for the tips! I recently moved a slew of aging home servers onto a couple VM servers, and have been looking for info on tweaking things for optimum performance. I’ll be giving all of these a try.
I have installed vmware workstation on windows xp (host machine) i have created
Red hat 4.0 AS as guest, now when i try to telnet from host to guest it does not work
also i have enabled telnet on the server.
thanks in advance…
v p
I’ve spent many days doing tests (many times) of vmware host stability on Linux, and I have found only 1 distribution is stable: openSUSE 10.3 – all the others will give you OOM errors and crash the host if you’ve got a few VMs running for a few days, then start up 1 more.
The problem seems to be the way all kernels (Except SUSE) handle the caching of disk to “spare memory”. When the cache “uses” it all up, all kernels (except SUSE) refuse to give it back to vmware, triggering the OOM killer to “take out” random host processes – usually always ending in a total crash.
I’ve reported the problems to (at least) redhat and vmware several times over the last 2 years – none of them have fixed it yet. I tried about 10 different distros before I found SUSE is stable and stopped looking.
Good luck!!
p.s. all my machines are dual-xeon HP DL360 g4’s with 8gigs ram.
I installed Windows XP on multiple VMWare(s) hosted on CentOS. The VMWare(s) were bridge mode on the network card. The Remote Desktop Connection works from one WinXP to another WinXP within the host box. But I cannot get the Remote Desktop Connection work from outside into the box. They are all on the same sub-net. I can ping the WinXPs, and telnet the port 3389 and stay connected, too. Any help? Thanks in advance.
July 22, 2008 at 9:12 am
Thanks for the tips! I recently moved a slew of aging home servers onto a couple VM servers, and have been looking for info on tweaking things for optimum performance. I’ll be giving all of these a try.
August 5, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hi,
I have installed vmware workstation on windows xp (host machine) i have created
Red hat 4.0 AS as guest, now when i try to telnet from host to guest it does not work
also i have enabled telnet on the server.
thanks in advance…
v p
September 26, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Have someone ever test some of these tips on VMWare Server 2 (RC or Beta version) ?
September 26, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Hi Alex,
I have tested on VMware Server 2 (Beta), but not on RC or 2 RTM.
I can assure you that they all will still apply, as I have used these methods on VMware Workstation 6.x which is what Server 2 is based on.
HTH
Jayson
January 15, 2009 at 10:45 am
I’ve spent many days doing tests (many times) of vmware host stability on Linux, and I have found only 1 distribution is stable: openSUSE 10.3 – all the others will give you OOM errors and crash the host if you’ve got a few VMs running for a few days, then start up 1 more.
The problem seems to be the way all kernels (Except SUSE) handle the caching of disk to “spare memory”. When the cache “uses” it all up, all kernels (except SUSE) refuse to give it back to vmware, triggering the OOM killer to “take out” random host processes – usually always ending in a total crash.
I’ve reported the problems to (at least) redhat and vmware several times over the last 2 years – none of them have fixed it yet. I tried about 10 different distros before I found SUSE is stable and stopped looking.
Good luck!!
p.s. all my machines are dual-xeon HP DL360 g4’s with 8gigs ram.
May 9, 2009 at 5:03 am
I installed Windows XP on multiple VMWare(s) hosted on CentOS. The VMWare(s) were bridge mode on the network card. The Remote Desktop Connection works from one WinXP to another WinXP within the host box. But I cannot get the Remote Desktop Connection work from outside into the box. They are all on the same sub-net. I can ping the WinXPs, and telnet the port 3389 and stay connected, too. Any help? Thanks in advance.