[Charlug] Weird VMWare Performance

[David Simmons]

While I don't think we have any VMWare experts (maybe we do), was
hoping maybe someone would have some pointers as to where to start
researching and/or other tech support groups to contact.  Thanks in
advance.

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I'm getting some
VERY strange performance changes in VMWare and was wondering if anyone had
any ideas/tips/etc.

Work requires a Windows environment to
access their systems & web-tools....so I've used VMWare for awhile to
accomplish this.  Recently moved from:

BEFORE:  OpenSuSE 10.2 -
64 Bit OS (running VMWare Server 1.0.1)
AFTER:  OpenSuSE 10.3 - 32bit
OS (running VMWare Server 1.0.4)

hardware has stayed the same
in both scenarios.....I'm using the same VM image - but the BEFORE system
would boot (from suspend) into a usable system in about 5 seconds....the
AFTER system takes minutes! (initial screen comes up...but performance is
really slow until the system restore bar is finished....minutes later). =

Also....copying files from a share within the Windows environment to my
Linux environment is also crazy!  Could move a 4.0GB file in about 8
minutes - now it takes 50 minutes...What happened?!?

Yes, I
have the 'latest/greatest' VMTools installed (it was worst without - if
you can believe that)....and I don't have the disk space pre-allocated
(but remember - I was happy with it not pre-allocated in the BEFORE
system).

Any ideas?  Thanks - Dave
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