I can say that I stopped using VMWare and started using Virtual Box and I have not had this issue since.
I can also say that when I encountered this problem in VMware the processor in my windows guest never spiked. At the time I was having the trouble, based on the symptoms I was fairly certain it had to do with VMware grabbing the input from the keyboard and not releasing it. James On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Pinecone <ultimate.pinec...@gmail.com>wrote: > Could this have any similarity to the NVidia infinite loop problem > (http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=4432&st=0) that many > people seem to have on windows? I have this problem when i boot to xp > and the problem seems to be the same judging by the description if i > disregard that people mostly seem to have this problem when running > vmware. > > I've had this problem once while running virtualbox with xp inside it > from ubuntu 8.10, the xp inside virtualbox showed the exact symptoms of > the infinite loop problem which i have when it happens when i've booted > to xp (on xp the screen starts to flicker slightly after a while of > being frozen), while ubuntu showed the exact problems described by all > the above posts. I also had the problem on ubuntu while not running > virtualbox. > > I have this problem regardless of if im running 32 or 64 bit versions of > ubuntu, although considerably less often on 64 bit. I do not have a 64 > bit version of XP although if im right in thinking this is the same > problem, im guessing i would have it on that too. > > Any help would be much appreciated as it seems no matter what i do i > cant escape this random freezing. > > Note: The fix for windows in the post i linked to above on the nvidia > forum did not work for me on my xp install. > > -- > X freezes running vmware (server and workstation) when using network > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117219 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “vmware-server” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > When running vmware my X freezes. Sometimes just aminute but often for > ever. Not even the LED:s on the keyboard will work. > > It seems like this happen then vmware is using the network, so my guess is > there are something wrong in the kernel modules. > -- X freezes running vmware (server and workstation) when using network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117219 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
