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wem

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Registered: 2005-02-11

Posts: 43

Vmware slow

hi

i've   installed vmware 5.5 from AUR and install WinXp as a guest OS. The problvem is the WinXP installation process very slow. It takes more than 1 hour to install. Anyone know what is the prob?

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Vmware slow

hi

i've   installed vmware 5.5 from AUR and install WinXp as a guest OS. The problvem is the WinXP installation process very slow. It takes more than 1 hour to install. Anyone know what is the prob?

I haven't used vmware on linux so I dunno if it's a lot faster, but with my QEMU experience all harddrive activity is a lot slower in emulators... I installed FreeBSD in qemu once to make some screenshots of the freebsd install, it took forever compared to on real hardware...

Xarturkhann

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From: Ankara

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 55

Re: Vmware slow

Try Parallels Workstation..It's really fast and better than WMWare...

http://www.parallels.com/

wem

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Registered: 2005-02-11

Posts: 43

Re: Vmware slow

have u install this on Arch?

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Registered: 2004-05-25

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Re: Vmware slow

parallels looks exactly like vmware. lol
I wonder if they are just reselling it.

all kidding aside, I will probably give it a try. Their beta is free anyway..

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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Vmware slow

all kidding aside, I will probably give it a try. Their beta is free anyway..

Leave some words about it when you try it

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,245

Re: Vmware slow

Switch to full screen when installing any windows in a VM.
The windowed vga/textmode in a VM is a lot slower than the fullscreen textmode.

Once you have windows running, install vmware-tools and everything will run fine in windowed mode once directx takes over from textmode.

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scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Vmware slow

Vmware is really fast when run in fullscreen mode- although it starts up slow, but this seems to be a GTK2 issue (already discussed here).
Parallels is surprisingly fast, very easy to set up, but all versions I've tried (including latest beta) fail to get focus of many USB devices when plugged in, even if manually modpdobing out loaded USB modules- in comparison VMware 5.51 works just fine.

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aquila_deus

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 348

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Re: Vmware slow

Vmware is really fast when run in fullscreen mode- although it starts up slow, but this seems to be a GTK2 issue (already discussed here).

At startup vmware tries to launch the core using different library combinations to avoid incompatible libraries. If you want to fix it, just edit lib/vmware/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh.

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Vmware slow

At startup vmware tries to launch the core using different library combinations to avoid incompatible libraries. If you want to fix it, just edit lib/vmware/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh.

Thanks, I will give it a try.
And since my Vmware is installed "Arch-style" the above wrapper is in /opt/vmware/lib/lib instead.

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