Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

[Jeff Chua]

On 5/1/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.)

I thought so too, never knew it was defaulted on, until I poked around
and realized that it was the culprit.

I'll wait for the stable WS6 to be released. Right now, WS5 is good
enough for me.

Thanks,
Jeff.
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