VM6 is designed to use Intel's VT or AMD-V (which P4 doesn't have). I think that's why you suffer from bad performance. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hetz Ben Hamo Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:35 PM To: Linux-IL Subject: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience
Hi, I wanted to share my experience with VMWare 6 beta with you people.. Machine: Pentium 4 2.80Ghz, 2GB RAM, 120GB disk, CentOS 4.4 + updates. VMWare: Version 6 (Workstation) Build 36983. VMWare 6 has some really nice features when it comes to memory support (up to 3.5GB), USB 2.0 support, and other nice features (including a built in VNC support, although not features as nicely as in the latest QEMU). One of the things that really irritates me and the reason I'm writing this here is it's speed of emulating: Although my machine is not the fastest in terms of processors today, it should be pretty respectable to run one emulated session pretty fast IMHO. The Guest OS that I'm trying is: XP, Norton Antivirus, 256MB RAM, 8GB Virtual disk and thats about it (I use it for some tests). With VMWare 6, the emulation is DOG SLOW compared to VMWare 5.5.3 (latest stable). It's so slow, that to me it looks like I'm running XP with a 400Mhz processor with 64MB RAM. I do know that the beta has logging enabled, but 3 times slower compared to VMWare 5? I think VMWare Workstation is now entitled to the name "Bloatware". So if you run the beta version and see a significant performance hit, it's not your machine, its version 6 beta. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
