I've recently updated to the latest VMware server which has resulted in unbearably slow performance.

I've tried applying vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz as recommended on the opensuse.org Wiki "Setting_up_VMware_on_SUSE_Linux" without any success.

OS SuSE10 (32bit - installer did mention something about it being 64bit hardware???)
2GB RAM
ASUS MB
HyperThreading off

x Guest WindowsXP sp2

uname -a
Linux linux1 2.6.13-15-default #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
(tried SMP kernel as well)

/proc/version
Linux version 2.6.13-15-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005

/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 3011.296
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 6028.51

In my individual VM trace file I receive the following:

May 09 11:55:28: vcpu-0| VMSAMPLE32: cs=0x8, eip=0x806bb142
May 09 11:55:29: vcpu-0| VMSAMPLE32: cs=0x8, eip=0x806bb142
May 09 11:55:30: vcpu-0| VMSAMPLE32: cs=0x8, eip=0x806bb142
May 09 11:55:31: vcpu-0| VMSAMPLE32: cs=0x8, eip=0x806bb142
May 09 11:55:32: vcpu-0| VMSAMPLE32: cs=0x8, eip=0x806bb142
May 09 11:55:33: vcpu-0| VMSAMPLE32: cs=0x8, eip=0x806bb142
May 09 11:55:34: vcpu-0| VMSAMPLE32: cs=0x8, eip=0x806bb142

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Adam

I moved away from my SMP kernel (EM64T CPU - disabled hyperthreading) and did the symlink trick and that seemed to make little difference.

Once I connected to the VM using VNC and not the absurdly slow console tool it worked perfectly!

Seems VMware still need to do a bit of work on speeding up the VMware Server Console connection.

Adam