CentOS - May 2007 - Re: Centos really slow as VMware Server guest OS

I thought some people here might like to know what we just found out
while trying to get VMWare running under CentOS 5.  Before we found the note
about changing VMWare from 2 to 1 CPU's, we went to `Edit' ->
`Preferences' ->
`Memory' and changed the memory option to:

	Fit All virtual memory into reserved host RAM

It had been set to the next option down, second out of 3 (we don't have the
system any more to see what it said word for word).  This had a HUGE effect on
performance.  Before the change, it would take several minutes to do anything
under VMWare.  Startups and shutdowns were dog slow.  Turning off the swap
options helped a lot.  After that, we also changed from 2 to 1 CPU's and
that
helped a little bit, but the memory option change had the biggest effect.
 Just thought you might like to know.

On 5/25/07, Brent L. Bates <blbates at vigyan.com>
wrote:
>      I thought some people here might like to know what we just found out
> while trying to get VMWare running under CentOS 5.  Before we found the
note
> about changing VMWare from 2 to 1 CPU's, we went to `Edit' ->
`Preferences' ->
> `Memory' and changed the memory option to:
>
>         Fit All virtual memory into reserved host RAM
>
> It had been set to the next option down, second out of 3 (we don't have
the
> system any more to see what it said word for word).  This had a HUGE effect
on
> performance.  Before the change, it would take several minutes to do
anything
> under VMWare.  Startups and shutdowns were dog slow.  Turning off the swap
> options helped a lot.  After that, we also changed from 2 to 1 CPU's
and that
> helped a little bit, but the memory option change had the biggest effect.
>  Just thought you might like to know.
The second option is:

Allow some virtual machine memory to be swapped

Akemi
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