On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Jason Boxman wrote:
> I tired to install Ubuntu on an install of VMWare Server 1.0 on a Windows
> 2000 SP4 box. The machine has 640M of RAM and a Celeron M 1.4GHz CPU.
>
> The install process itself was slow, as Ubuntu makes heavy usage of the VESA
> framebuffer at boot and VMWare hates that.
>
> However, what is causing me the most pain is that, if left unattentioned
> -- i.e. I'm so bored I walk away from the laptop during install and don't
> touch it -- I find when I come back that the guest OS has simply hung up.
> Of course, it unhangs when you interact with it, but any _long running_
> processes are violated. For example, the install progress will have
> simply hung at, say, 40%, but obviously I can interactive with the console
> as if nothing had happened.
That indicates to me that the guest OS is trying to invoke a screen saver,
and VMware doesn't support the method it's using. If there's a boot option
to disable it, use it. It might be part of some power-saving package (think
ACPI).
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