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    Vmware x64 Instibilty in Ubuntu

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by mr_bankai, Jan 4, 2009.

  1. mr_bankai

    mr_bankai Notebook Evangelist

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    Has anyone else been experiencing this?

    If i try to power on more than one machine at any given time vmware crashes...It's not a RAM issue cause i've only allocated 1GB to each vm and i have 4GB total. Also my 32bit vista runs multiple vms without any problems(i just run low on mem which is why i want to use ubuntu as the host). And just recently it crashed with just one vm open. I checked the md5sum on the bundle i installed and it matches. Cant figure out what's wrong...

    If it helps the vms im running are xp and vista
     
    mr_bankai, Jan 4, 2009
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    If there was an error or whatever, it would have offered more information regarding the nature of the problem... care to share it?
     
    Bog, Jan 5, 2009
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    mr_bankai Notebook Evangelist

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    no error, if there was I would have posted it. It just locks up my system. Even after I force quit the cpu is still working and the tray icon still reports 1 vm running (but it cant be clicked on so I dont know if it's accurate).
     
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    Ok forget it. I just switched over to virtualbox. It works flawlessly, just wish it performed as well as vmware...guess i have no choice now. Oh well.
     
    mr_bankai, Jan 5, 2009
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