[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird VMWare Performance

[David Simmons]

While I don't think we have any VMWare experts (maybe we do), was hoping
maybe someone would have some pointers as to where to start researching
and/or other tech support groups to contact.  Thanks in advance.

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I'm getting some VERY strange performance changes in VMWare and
was wondering if anyone had any ideas/tips/etc.

Work requires a
Windows environment to access their systems & web-tools....so I've
used VMWare for awhile to accomplish this.  Recently moved from:

BEFORE:  OpenSuSE 10.2 - 64 Bit OS (running VMWare Server
1.0.1)
AFTER:  OpenSuSE 10.3 - 32bit OS (running VMWare Server
1.0.4)

hardware has stayed the same in both scenarios.....I'm
using the same VM image - but the BEFORE system would boot (from suspend)
into a usable system in about 5 seconds....the AFTER system takes minutes!
(initial screen comes up...but performance is really slow until the system
restore bar is finished....minutes later).  Also....copying files
from a share within the Windows environment to my Linux environment is
also crazy!  Could move a 4.0GB file in about 8 minutes - now it
takes 50 minutes...What happened?!?

Yes, I have the
'latest/greatest' VMTools installed (it was worst without - if you can
believe that)....and I don't have the disk space pre-allocated (but
remember - I was happy with it not pre-allocated in the BEFORE system).

Any ideas?  Thanks - Dave