vmware workstation is beating up my disk!

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 23:19:06 UTC 2007


On 1/15/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/15/07, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > Anyone else running VMWare workstation in FC6 (x86)?  I've noticed
> > > that whenever vmware is running (WinXP), the disk is getting polled
> > > every other second non-stop.  it sounds like little men are marching
> > > around its so loud & annoying.  Its not a memory/swap thing as I've
> > > got 3GB of RAM, and vmware has access to a large chunk of it.
> > The host might be running beagle indexing ?
>
> only when vmware is running?  btw, its not, i don't even have beagle installed.
>
> > Does top or win process manager list any interesting items ?
>
> nope
>
> > How much memory do you have assigned to the vmguest ?
>
> about 2.1GB
>
> > Is the win machine set to not do windows updates etc ? {or office indexing}
>
> office isn't installed, but it does have windows update set to run
> automagically.  but i really doubt that's the issue, as the disk
> polling is non-stop all the time, and windows update isn't always
> doing stuff.
>

Windows disk defragmentation or file indexing enabled?

> > Is the vm guest
> >
> > I'm running the vmware-server on x86_64 fc6, and vmware workstation on
> > another identical x86_64 AM2 ubuntu without seeing that.
>
> err, ok.
>
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