Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031208AbXEAMv6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 08:51:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031209AbXEAMv6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 08:51:58 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.226]:17588 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031208AbXEAMv4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 08:51:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kpW+uSeiYtQ7W8DB/qB7uTq7ypivaOl/Np1Qo+jYO1fSyWYWaYWBua3LzXPaKLLGOTGk/hAhwr7g43EfqmUGwdG7b2r91vU449zQlU8sBP/ybW5xr15ZoeF0oQ/phdFwLP5SOm7b/OPKUjFXgQZ57lFCGp5zHxZRQ0DlK8zmeQE= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:51:55 +0800 From: "Jeff Chua" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21. Cc: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, LKML In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1177998147.8981.16.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1078 Lines: 30 On 5/1/07, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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.) I thought so too, never knew it was defaulted on, until I poked around and realized that it was the culprit. I'll wait for the stable WS6 to be released. Right now, WS5 is good enough for me. Thanks, Jeff. - 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/