anacron running updatedb etc vs vmware guest no screen update

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 16:23:50 David Timms wrote:
> Hi, on F7,,I have vmware-server-1.0.3 installed {vmware-any-any-109},
> and have a winXP guest vm. I start the vm when I boot my laptop.
>
> I bit later I return to the guest, and find it unusable - clicking anway
> doesn't seem to be noticed, or takes a stupid {minutes++} amount of time
> to happen. The guest has the vmware-tools installed.
>
> Meanwhile the disk is being continually accessed, and top shows that
> updatedb, and then other tasks are being run. Having these affect the
> normal operation of a vm guest isn't acceptable - especially since the
> indexing etc takes about 10-15 minutes, leaving the vm unusable.
>
> Is there a way to config it so that anacron doesn't instigate stuff
> while a vm guest is running ?
> Is there a way to automatically pause the processes started by anacron
> when a vm guest is brought to the foreground ?
>
> While disabling the anacron service would work, what I am after is
> letting it be enabled, but play nice with the other guys - the work I
> need to do.
>
> DaveT.

You might want change the hour of the updatedb process in crontab?

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