Jacob Broido wrote: > Hi, > The reason you experience slowdown in Vmware 6 (beta) as compared to > Vmware 5.x is because as it names suggest - a beta. > > VMware 6 has extra debugging&tracing capabilities and features > included into it, and these cannot be disabled in beta release. > Actually the software tells you this when you power it on, and that it > will result in lower performance. > > > So there. What I'm interested in hearing is whether the RTC bug was finally fixed.
Under VMWare Workstation 5 when running on Debian with kernel 2.6.18, as well as on VMWare server (latest version) when running on Windows XP, the guest OS receives an incorrect interrupt rate for the real time clock (RTC). This causes a host of undesirable side effects. When running a Windows host (as I do most days these days, working on a big Windows development project), the clock keeps running forward. Every so often, the vmware tools thingy resets it back, which wrecks havoc in Visual Studio's makefile system. On Linux, however, the effects are worse. When running Linux inside the guest OS, the system mis-judges how long the keys are down on the keyboard, and produces auto-repeats in cases where auto-repeat is most unwanted. I ended up solving that one by setting the auto-repeat threshold to almost a second, but this is very annoying when you DO want auto-repeat. I would very much like to know whether this problem is solved in version 6. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= 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]
