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...
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 -- My place : »www.schettino.us
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
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