Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue May 01 2007 - 07:10:55 EST



On May 1 2007 14:13, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Does anyone have VMware working on x86_64 with 2.6.21? It's working fine
>> for me with 2.6.20, but freezes the whole computer with 2.6.21. Before I
>
>
> I'm on i386 and noticed it makes the "guest" very unresponsive.
>
> Uncheck "disable write-caching" solves the problem.

Why do you even have "disable wc" turned _on_? (Yes, it's a VMware 5 bug where
it gets randomly set upon machine creation, VM WS 6 has it fixed.)


Jan
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