Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 1/16/07, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 OK, I think I was also doing that prior to going to beta. > >> >> 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 On VMware preferences, not the guest preferences, there is a Memory tab and you can choose to keep all of the guests in the host memory. You need to run VMware as root to change the settings. >> 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. You may also wish to clone the earliest snapshot you have and try running that as a quick alternative. > >> >> 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 > -- I know how to do SPECIAL EFFECTS!!
