Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rick Reynolds wrote: And you need at least a 3GHz processor to have it run halfway decent. I don't know if you're using a bit of hyperbole, or if there is a big performance difference between the free server and the commercial "VMWare Workstation" product that I use, but it runs very snapp

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-09 Thread George Borisov
Linas Žvirblis wrote: > David Baron wrote: > >>> "elevator=cfq" >>> > > This sets a default I/O scheduler (a driver that organizes reads and > writes to a disk in a certain way) to CFQ. It should improve > interactivity, but can sometimes degrade performance. I did not read the > thread, so do no

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread Linas Žvirblis
David Baron wrote: >> "elevator=cfq" >> >> These things are probably case-sensitive. :-$ > > What is this? This sets a default I/O scheduler (a driver that organizes reads and writes to a disk in a certain way) to CFQ. It should improve interactivity, but can sometimes degrade performance. I did

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 19:20, George Borisov wrote: > George Borisov wrote: > > Plenty of memory and fast disks also helps. ;-) As does adding > > "elevator=CFQ" to the kernel options in the boot loader. > > "elevator=cfq" > > These things are probably case-sensitive. :-$ What is this? I am runn

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread George Borisov
George Borisov wrote: > > Plenty of memory and fast disks also helps. ;-) As does adding > "elevator=CFQ" to the kernel options in the boot loader. "elevator=cfq" These things are probably case-sensitive. :-$ -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread George Borisov
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > And you need at least a 3GHz processor to have it run halfway decent. Plenty of memory and fast disks also helps. ;-) As does adding "elevator=CFQ" to the kernel options in the boot loader. Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Descrip

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread Rick Reynolds
And you need at least a 3GHz processor to have it run halfway decent. I don't know if you're using a bit of hyperbole, or if there is a big performance difference between the free server and the commercial "VMWare Workstation" product that I use, but it runs very snappily on my Intel Penti

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: Installed this without a hitch. On next reboot, bootup hung up on or after "registering" ppp. Logchecks for the reboot showed ppp successfully registered and no indication of what died. VMware does set up a network "device" of its own. Anyware, booted the Knoppix CD, chroo

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread George Borisov
David Baron wrote: > > Anyone had success with the WMware beta? Better than really opensource Qemu > (with non-free but free) kqemu (the VMware install built such a driver for > WMware)? Using it here on a few machines and it works fine. -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc De

VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread David Baron
Installed this without a hitch. On next reboot, bootup hung up on or after "registering" ppp. Logchecks for the reboot showed ppp successfully registered and no indication of what died. VMware does set up a network "device" of its own. Anyware, booted the Knoppix CD, chroot and uninstalled the