Comments on: VMware Workstation 6.5.3 on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:03:35 +0000

Thanks for this guide, it has been very helpful

An advice:

instead of running in a separate terminal:
[code] while true; do sudo killall -9 vmware-modconfig-console; sleep 1; done [/code]

try to:

[code] export VMWARE_SKIP_MODULES=true [/code]

and then start the installer in the same terminal. It should be work and next you can proceed with the rest of this fantastic tutorial

By: aldeby

aldeby — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:21:32 +0000

Hi jbranko!
That is likely caused by the pagination of the RAM on the swap partition. To figure this out clearly you should run your Guest OS and when it’s fully loaded type into a terminal free and compare that output with the one you get after the system becomes very slow. the SWAP field would probably be very intensively used.

The solution is reducing the memory allocated to the Guest OS. Keep it half of the host and you would rarely face that issue again. It could also be a memory leak of wmWare itself, in this case we can do nothing but upgrade the program when an update is released.
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By: jbranko

jbranko — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:43:46 +0000

Hi! I installed vmware version VMware® Workstation 7.0.0 build-203739 on Ubuntu 9.10 (2.6.31-19-generic). I use windows XP image and it works perfect. But, if I left some applications opened on vmware XP image over night, next day host system became verry slow and unuseful. After restart of vmware image, everything is ok again. This is hapening every day. And its getting annoying. I know that vmware version 5.0 on ubuntu 8.04 is working great without this kind of problem. What should i do to solve this? Thank youfor help.

By: Sean Wilkerson

Sean Wilkerson — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:28:00 +0000

Great post, helpful, and concise. I used it a few months ago and then just again now after getting a new laptop and putting karmic-64 on it.

Thanks.

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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:00:33 +0000

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By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:01:20 +0000

Thanks for these instruction. While it took me two times to upgrade VMware (from 6.5.2 to 6.5.3) and Ubuntu (from 9.04 to 9.10), that was reading errors on my part and not the instructions. I have not checked out 2.b modifier keys, but at least VMware is up and running with my Window XP guest system.

Thanks, again

By: wallywojo

wallywojo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:59:10 +0000

Anyone else still having this problem with 6.5 and Ubuntu 9.10? After following step 2a I still get the losing focus mouse behavior. Any help for steps in addition to that or should this work after that step is completed?

Thanks

By: aldeby

aldeby — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:21:15 +0000

Yes Adrian, that’s exactly what some friends also experienced. At first I thought it was a problem with their guest OS, however you seem to confirm is a VMWare problem.

In their case I simply gave up and migrated their system to VirtualBox (which is also free and Open Source). Now seems they are enjoying the new virtualization system a lot.

You may have a try too: migrate-vmware-to-virtualbox.html

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:48:49 +0000

I guess the problem I’m seeing is a similar cause, just with a different end result.

Karmic, upgraded from Jaunty. vmWare Workstation 6.5.3, XP VM, was working fine under Jaunty. vmWare is running quite happily under Karmic, but the VM is _dog_ slow, and reporting 100% CPU usage (fills any spare resource with “System”). One core of the host’s CPU is flatline 100%, too.

By: aldeby

aldeby — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:28:50 +0000

No, but I can provide you with a valid free and open source alternative:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose