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From: "Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:51:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6a2187b0705010551h38c1e97av9ddcc096862808d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705011309050.18504@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

On 5/1/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
>
> On May 1 2007 14:13, Jeff Chua wrote:
> > On 5/1/07, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have VMware working on x86_64 with 2.6.21? It's working fine
> >> for me with 2.6.20, but freezes the whole computer with 2.6.21. Before I
> >
> >
> > I'm on i386 and noticed it makes the "guest" very unresponsive.
> >
> > Uncheck "disable write-caching" solves the problem.
>
> Why do you even have "disable wc" turned _on_? (Yes, it's a VMware 5 bug where
> it gets randomly set upon machine creation, VM WS 6 has it fixed.)

I thought so too, never knew it was defaulted on, until I poked around
and realized that it was the culprit.

I'll wait for the stable WS6 to be released. Right now, WS5 is good
enough for me.

Thanks,
Jeff.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01  5:42 Nigel Cunningham
2007-05-01  6:13 ` Jeff Chua
2007-05-01  6:33   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-05-01 11:09   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-01 12:51     ` Jeff Chua [this message]
2007-05-01  7:24 ` Michael Gerdau
2007-05-01  7:36   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-05-01 11:10     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-01 11:54       ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-05-01 13:46         ` Mark Lord
2007-05-01 15:09           ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-05-01 14:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-05-01 15:14   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-05-02  9:30     ` Petr Vandrovec
2007-05-04 11:40       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:08         ` Zachary Amsden
2007-05-04 20:14           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 21:04             ` Zachary Amsden
2007-05-05  9:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-05 18:06       ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-05-06  7:16       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-06 11:08         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-01  6:50 Marcos Pinto
2007-05-01  7:06 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-05-01 22:38 ` Zachary Amsden

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