vmware workstation is beating up my disk!

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jan 17 01:24:39 UTC 2007


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.

What version of VMware Workstation are you running?

I had been running 5.5 on RHELv4 with XP as a guest without problems.  Now I
am running the Beta of Workstaion 6 without problems.

In your preferences what do you have set for memory management?  Do you have
shared folders enabled and tried disabling them?  Do you have many snapshots?

Do you have only one guest XP?  If so, can you possibly build a new one from
scratch as a test?

Also, have you asked the same question on the Workstation forums of VMware?
 They are normally very helpful.

Ed




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