Vmware on my SuSE 9.0 machine with windows 2000 as guest works all right once I get it started, but it takes something like ten minutes to start. It just sits there, contributing little or nothing to load, with the scrren blank and unresponsive. I have turned off usb, floppy, and sound, but it still loads no faster. Any hints on what I might try next? Thanks, Henry Hajrpending
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From: Henry Harpending
Vmware on my SuSE 9.0 machine with windows 2000 as guest works all right once I get it started, but it takes something like ten minutes to start. It just sits there, contributing little or nothing to load, with the scrren blank and unresponsive.
I have turned off usb, floppy, and sound, but it still loads no faster.
Any hints on what I might try next?
How much physical ram do you have and how much is allocated to VMware? Ken
On Friday 19 December 2003 17:32, Ken Schneider wrote:
Vmware on my SuSE 9.0 machine with windows 2000 as guest works all right once I get it started, but it takes something like ten minutes to start. It just sits there, contributing little or nothing to load, with the scrren blank and unresponsive.
How much physical ram do you have and how much is allocated to VMware?
I have a gig with 256k allocated to W2K. I looked at vmware.log and see where it seems to be delayed for 2 1/2 minutes, several times, "initializing the USB backend" whatever that means. Here is an example: notice the time jump. Dec 19 17:19:20: mks| XINFO DGA 1800x1440x5568, fbSize 8017920, flags 0xe Dec 19 17:19:20: mks| XINFO DGA FB offset 0 Dec 19 17:19:20: vmx| Using unified VGA. Dec 19 17:19:20: vmx| SVGA frame buffer size 0x01000000 Dec 19 17:19:20: vmx| USB: Initializing UHCI host controller Dec 19 17:19:20: vmx| USB: Initializing USB Generic backend Dec 19 17:21:40: vmx| USBGL: CONTROL failed -1:110:Connection timed out Dec 19 17:21:40: vmx| requesttype=80 request=6 value=301 index=409 Dec 19 17:21:40: vmx| length=202 data=0x829ff18 timeout=186a0 Dec 19 17:23:20: vmx| USBGL: CONTROL failed -1:110:Connection timed out Dec 19 17:23:20: vmx| requesttype=80 request=6 value=302 index=409 Dec 19 17:23:20: vmx| length=202 data=0x82a0120 timeout=186a0 Dec 19 17:23:40: vmx| VMMon_GetkHzEstimate: Calculated 1152441 kHz Dec 19 17:23:40: vmx| VLANCE: send cluster threshold is 80, size = 3 recalcInterval is 2 ticks Dec 19 17:23:40: vmx| Ethernet0 MAC Address: 00:0c:29:f6:be:66 Dec 19 17:23:40: vmx| VMXNET: send cluster threshold is 80, size = 3 recalcInterval is 2 ticks Dec 19 17:23:40: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 1 Dec 19 17:23:40: mks| MKS lock got type None Dec 19 17:23:40: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: Barrier_Last = 1 Thanks, Henry
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From: Henry Harpending
How much physical ram do you have and how much is allocated to
VMware?
I have a gig with 256k allocated to W2K.
I looked at vmware.log and see where it seems to be delayed for 2 1/2 minutes, several times, "initializing the USB backend" whatever that means. Here is an example: notice the time jump.
Dec 19 17:19:20: mks| XINFO DGA 1800x1440x5568, fbSize 8017920, flags 0xe Dec 19 17:19:20: mks| XINFO DGA FB offset 0 Dec 19 17:19:20: vmx| Using unified VGA. Dec 19 17:19:20: vmx| SVGA frame buffer size 0x01000000 Dec 19 17:19:20: vmx| USB: Initializing UHCI host controller Dec 19 17:19:20: vmx| USB: Initializing USB Generic backend Dec 19 17:21:40: vmx| USBGL: CONTROL failed -1:110:Connection timed out Dec 19 17:21:40: vmx| requesttype=80 request=6 value=301 index=409
Try disabling USB in the w2k settings and start it up. If you have no delay then I would report this as a bug to VMware. You may find a report of this problem on there site already. Could be a problem with the MB that you are using also. Ken
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:54:44 -0700, Henry Harpending
have a gig with 256k allocated to W2K.
I looked at vmware.log and see where it seems to be delayed for 2 1/2 minutes, several times, "initializing the USB backend" whatever that means. Here is an example: notice the time jump.
... i just cant stand usb stuff. the only thing i use it for is scanner and occassionally, a camera, but that is on the suse side. i use vmware under suse, running a win2k session and have all the 'extras' disabled, such as sound, floppy, cdrom. i enable as required. sound stuff is taken care of on the suse side. try disabling it and see what happens -- << http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >> Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. -- Russell Baker
On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:30, mjt wrote:
Re: [SLE] vmware startup
my experience with 9.0 and VM 4 is not good. Installation was not difficult, the suse modules were kept, BUT there was zero stability. Don't know if it was the Reiser fs (first time i tried it) or anything else, but the system would need a hard reboot after only a minute or two of running Vmware. I suspect there is a problem running vm4 in suse 9.0 w. the Athlon Kernel. Back down to 8.2 I went, will wait for the dust to clear... d.
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On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:30, mjt wrote:
Re: [SLE] vmware startup
my experience with 9.0 and VM 4 is not good. Installation was not difficult, the suse modules were kept, BUT there was zero stability. Don't know if it was the Reiser fs (first time i tried it) or anything else, but the system would need a hard reboot after only a minute or two of running Vmware. I suspect there is a problem running vm4 in suse 9.0 w. the Athlon Kernel. Back down to 8.2 I went, will wait for the dust to clear... d.
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Siskel is that you?
Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I will play w. 9.0 again. Maybe it is the A7s333 mobo from asus. i have not been very happy w.it. Again, thanks and Happy Holidays! dimitris On Wednesday 24 December 2003 04:14, Peter A. Solomon wrote:
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On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:30, mjt wrote:
Re: [SLE] vmware startup
my experience with 9.0 and VM 4 is not good. Installation was not difficult, the suse modules were kept, BUT there was zero stability. Don't know if it was the Reiser fs (first time i tried it) or anything else, but the system would need a hard reboot after only a minute or two of running Vmware. I suspect there is a problem running vm4 in suse 9.0 w. the Athlon Kernel. Back down to 8.2 I went, will wait for the dust to clear... d.
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d.
my experience with 9.0 and VM 4 is not good. Installation was not difficult, the suse modules were kept, BUT there was zero stability. Don't know if it was the Reiser fs (first time i tried it) or anything else, but the system would need a hard reboot after only a minute or two of running Vmware. I suspect there is a problem running vm4 in suse 9.0 w. the Athlon Kernel. Back down to 8.2 I went, will wait for the dust to clear... d.
I am running Suse 9.0 with vmware 4.05 on an athlon kernel (2.4.21-144.athlon), and it has NEVER crashed. Granted I only got Suse 9.0 about a month ago, but it is rock solid. My guset OS is Windows NT 4.0, and it is running all day because I need it for business apps. I am using bridged networking, and the Windows VM connects to the server adn teh internet no problem. For what it is worth my motherboard is an ECS K7S5a, hardly a high end motherboard. I use the Reiserfs (ext2 for the boot partition). Not sure what the problem is, but Suse 9.0 and vmware 4.05 with an athlon kernel work great for me. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 tel 914-632-3778 fax 914-632-5502
On Thu December 25 2003 07:27 am, plain wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:30, mjt wrote:
Re: [SLE] vmware startup
my experience with 9.0 and VM 4 is not good. Installation was not difficult, the suse modules were kept, BUT there was zero stability. Don't know if it was the Reiser fs (first time i tried it) or anything else, but the system would need a hard reboot after only a minute or two of running Vmware. I suspect there is a problem running vm4 in suse 9.0 w. the Athlon Kernel. Back down to 8.2 I went, will wait for the dust to clear... d.
Not my experience at all but I'm not running with parts of VM 4 that come with the 9.0 distro. (I ditched the distributed modules) Using 4.0.5 RPM from VMWare Have run with 3 different kernels (2.4.21 - from 9.0, as well as vanilla 2.4.22 and 2.4.23 (currently) I run VMware all day every day because I need it to VPN into work. If it wasn't reliable on 9.0, I would be doing something else in a hurry. The kernel settings (on the boot line) are pretty important. I an currently running with: apm=off nosmp acpi=off noapic -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/24/03 09:47 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Justice is incidental to law and order." - J. Edgar Hoover
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 09:51, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Not my experience at all but I'm not running with parts of VM 4 that come with the 9.0 distro. (I ditched the distributed modules)
Using 4.0.5 RPM from VMWare Have run with 3 different kernels (2.4.21 - from 9.0, as well as vanilla 2.4.22 and 2.4.23 (currently)
I run VMware all day every day because I need it to VPN into work. If it wasn't reliable on 9.0, I would be doing something else in a hurry.
The kernel settings (on the boot line) are pretty important. I an currently running with:
apm=off nosmp acpi=off noapic
I use it all day at work using the modules supplied with the kernel with no problems. The only 'special' setting in menu.lst is pci=noacpi. The settings all depend on the M/B you are using. Try experimenting, thats what the rest of us do to find the correct settings. You may want to contact support at vmware as well. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 02:27:35 -1000, plain
On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:30, mjt wrote:
Re: [SLE] vmware startup
my experience with 9.0 and VM 4 is not good. Installation was not difficult, the suse modules were kept, BUT there was zero stability. Don't know if it was the Reiser fs (first time i tried it) or anything else, but the system would need a hard reboot after only a minute or two of running Vmware. I suspect there is a problem running vm4 in suse 9.0 w. the Athlon Kernel. Back down to 8.2 I went, will wait for the dust to clear...
mtobler@linux:~> uname -a Linux linux 2.4.21-144-default #1 Fri Nov 14 00:01:36 UTC 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux .. i had instability at first, but that's because i didnt follow the 'rules' to install vmware for 9.0, with specific regard to the overwriting of modules compiled by vmware-config.pl. once i re-installed km_vmware and re-installed vmware, i've been running under 9.0 with no issues. ... oh, and i'm on reiserfs (not 4.x) -- << http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >> Penguin Trivia #46: Animals who are not penguins can only wish they were. - Chicago Reader 10/15/82
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