Hello Dean, On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:24:22 -0700 (PDT) "Dean S. Messing" <deanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a problem with Shared Folders. > I'm running the latest version of VMware. > The host is an up-to-date FC5 and the guest is XP Pro (Service pack 2). > XP is on a NAT network as defined by VMware. > > There is clearly something amiss with this virtual switch, or whatever > it's called (vmnet8) that is used for the NAT network and which > connects the host to the guest. (Note: I'm a network ignoramus so go > easy if I'm not using the right terminology here!) > > I've defined a Shared Folder under VMware over to my Windows stuff on > Linux. Binking into any directory in the Shared Folder takes seconds > each time. It is extremely slow. Also bringing up even a trivial .doc file > takes 10 seconds or more. > > I can see some traffic on the vmnet8 meter on gkrellm > but the rate numbers are in the low low single digits (like 1 and 2). > > Any clues on how to diagnose and fix? Didn't get such behaviour here w/ the same config. Did you restart the vmware winXP after upgrading to VMWare 5.5.2? Also try to keep only one of the three (possible: bridged, NAT, host-only) network cards to see if one works normally. Regards, -- wwp
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