On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Monday 31 July 2006 00:18, Eben King wrote:
> <snip>
>> 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).
>
> I finally came across a thread that sounds similar to that, but the issue
> was the host OS CPU was being throttled down.
Yeah, I think you should disable ACPI from inside the guest OS. The best
situation is that it sees the CPU state accurately, and its instructions to
the OS are heeded. But the host OS will always have at least as accurate a
picture, and its instructions are sure to be heeded.
> I did finally complete a Dapper text-only install, so it seems I may have
> not been waiting long enough. It took two hours. After, even with VMWare
> tools, my X session would 'hang' for five to thirty seconds on occasion
> with the host OS idle and the guest doing simple things like opening
> Konsole windows. I think my laptop is simply too slow, although I had no
> issues doing this ages ago with VMWare on a much slower laptop with less
> RAM and VMWare 2.x or 3.x. Oh well.
Try running "top" in your guest OS to see how much swap it's using. It may
be thrashing. Actually I think it might be more efficient to just give
VMware more RAM, and skip swap entirely.
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