Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031164AbXEALK2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 07:10:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031168AbXEALK2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 07:10:28 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:46370 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031164AbXEALK1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 07:10:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 13:09:33 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jeff Chua cc: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, LKML Subject: Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1177998147.8981.16.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 24 On May 1 2007 14:13, Jeff Chua wrote: > On 5/1/07, Nigel Cunningham 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.) Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/