Fedora Core 1 and VMWare
 

Hello, I'm running Fedora Core version 1, with VMWare 4.5.1 to run WinXP pro. Recently I left VMWare running XP for a couple ours to download some files. When I came back, the system had frozen, the whole thing and not just Windoze. I could ping the box from another computer on my network, but I couldn't telnet in. It wouldn't respond to any keyboard or mouse commands either. I ended up turning the power off and powering up again. I then checked the system logs, and found the following:

May 10 21:45:59 benscomp insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/misc/vmmon.o will taint the kernel: no license
May 10 21:45:59 benscomp insmod: See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
May 10 21:45:59 benscomp insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/misc/vmmon.o will taint the kernel: forced load
May 10 21:45:59 benscomp insmod: Module vmmon loaded, with warnings
May 10 21:45:59 benscomp insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/misc/vmnet.o will taint the kernel: no license
May 10 21:45:59 benscomp insmod: See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
May 10 21:45:59 benscomp insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/misc/vmnet.o will taint the kernel: forced load
May 10 21:45:59 benscomp insmod: Module vmnet loaded, with warnings

My computer is running dual AMD MP 2800s, with 512 MB of RAM, with half alotted for XP under VMWare.

This has happened before, too. I think it might have something to do with the fact that VMWare is not supported on FC (good thing this is just the trial version... :D ). Are there any similar virtual machine programs out there, preferably open source that might run a bit more smoothly? Any way I can make this a bit smoother?

Thanks for any insight.