CentOS - Apr 2007 - Centos really slow as VMware Server guest OS..

Hi.. Does anyone have any ideas how to speed up CentOS when its running 
as a guest OS under VMWare server??

It seems to be really slow...

WipeOut wrote:
> Hi.. Does anyone have any ideas how to speed up CentOS when its running 
> as a guest OS under VMWare server??
> 
> It seems to be really slow...
Give it more RAM, put the disk image on a faster drive.  All the things 
that apply to real systems still have the same effects.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com

WipeOut wrote:
> Hi.. Does anyone have any ideas how to speed up CentOS when its 
> running as a guest OS under VMWare server??
>
> It seems to be really slow...
Did you install vmware tools?  if not, do so immediately, and expect a 
HUGE performance increase.

note you need to re-run the vmtools setup script each time you update 
your centos kernel.

On 3/31/07, WipeOut <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> Hi.. Does anyone have any ideas how to speed up CentOS when its running
> as a guest OS under VMWare server??
>
> It seems to be really slow...
> _______________________________________________

Multiple steps:

1) Install the vmware tools for the system. That increases performance
greatly as vmware can then start caching memory better

2) I found that not using LVM increases performance



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 02:02 +0100, WipeOut wrote:
> Hi.. Does anyone have any ideas how to speed up CentOS when its running 
> as a guest OS under VMWare server??
> 
> It seems to be really slow...
Install vmware tools?
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> Hi.. Does anyone have any ideas how to speed up CentOS when its
> running 
> as a guest OS under VMWare server??
> 
Apart from installing the vmware tools, another recommedation I have
read is to disable dual CPU within the VM and use only one. Haven't had
a chance to test it myself yet, my vmware machine is being repaired.

Gabriel


		
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