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reply to JohnInSJ

Re: XP added to a linux machine

Check your lucidtips link again after a bit; I just left a comment on that thread telling how to enable VNC connection to the VMWare Server's built-in capability that may help you use it easily. Basically, you add these three lines to the VMX file, with the actual virtual machine shut down:

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = 5900
RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "password"
 

Can I change the amount of RAM I allocate to any virtual machine after the install (guest os) is done?? I allowed the default allocation of 256 MB (The laptop has 1 gig) and its somewhat draggy...I would like to increase the size to 500 MB.... anyone done this before?? Currently installing XP SP 3 and its sllllooooowwww.

Carr

I've not tried to change the RAM; I set up 512 MB initially and it's fast enough for my needs. I believe, however, that it's possible. VMWare has its own set of forums and I've found useful hints there, including the VMX modification to get VNC access (the standard Web Access interface seems draggy by comparison, and would not work with Win98 boxes on my LAN). Click the "appliances" entry on the Web Access toolbar to get to the VMWare community areas...
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Jim Kyle

Thanks very much for the pointers. Im verifying the download on SP3..... its pretty draggy though. Additionally thanks for the suggestions on VNC as well and your kind interest and pointers. They are deeply appreciated

Regards
Carr

Yep memory allocated to the guest OS can be changed. During the last reboot I stoipped the VM and changed it. Highlight the VM in the left pane. In the right pane choose the hardware tab and its possible to edit what is allowed the VM> I changed to 512 MB of RAM, restarted and so far so good.

Carr

Yeah that's the only thing I forgot to mention - with vmware the more memory the better in the host machine, you don't want to be swapping. If you can toss another gig or three of ram into that host linux box things will run a lot better.

There are a lot of performance tweaks you can do...

»www.itnervecenter.com/content/vm···ng-linux

Check that out, and the pages it links to.

The ones I do (I run a couple vms - xp and centos - under ubuntu server) include the "fit all into prealocated memory" ones, no memory trimming, and using a tmpfs file system for the memory backing file vmware insists on creating.

That and 6gb of ram and things run pretty snappy
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Thanks John for the excellent info and the link.....VM is on my laptop with SUSE 10.3 as the host and only a gig of RAM..I plan to change that tomorrow and add another gig to the laptop..... I ended up unil 5:30 this morning playing with things and have a couple of problems Im going to try to solve before asking for help with them.....but yeah most of the time I spent in updating the very early copy of XP Pro that I installed as the guest...that literally took hours plus I locked powersave in performance mode to get the CPU speed to stay up at 1.8GHz as well.....even with the machine plugged in powersave kept throttling back. Couple of interesting things, I also changed the CPU config under VMWare from single to 2 cores and XP handled it without a burp.....

I imagine that with 8 GB your machine is fast!

Later today Ill get a look at the tweaks site and post back on how things go......

Thanks again for the kind interest and suggestions
Carr