vmware workstation is beating up my disk!
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 21:39:19 UTC 2007
On 1/15/07, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Anyone else running VMWare workstation in FC6 (x86)? I've noticed
> > that whenever vmware is running (WinXP), the disk is getting polled
> > every other second non-stop. it sounds like little men are marching
> > around its so loud & annoying. Its not a memory/swap thing as I've
> > got 3GB of RAM, and vmware has access to a large chunk of it.
> The host might be running beagle indexing ?
only when vmware is running? btw, its not, i don't even have beagle installed.
> Does top or win process manager list any interesting items ?
nope
> How much memory do you have assigned to the vmguest ?
about 2.1GB
> Is the win machine set to not do windows updates etc ? {or office indexing}
office isn't installed, but it does have windows update set to run
automagically. but i really doubt that's the issue, as the disk
polling is non-stop all the time, and windows update isn't always
doing stuff.
> Is the vm guest
>
> I'm running the vmware-server on x86_64 fc6, and vmware workstation on
> another identical x86_64 AM2 ubuntu without seeing that.
err, ok.
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