I am currently in a situation where I don't really have a physical client to use for testing my setup. I have one ESX server with a test tile deployed and on VM setup to the client spec. The ESX host is an 8 core 32GB blade.

I am experiencing similar problems to some of the other folk that have posted on here where I can run each workload individually but it seems like when I try to run all of them one or more will fail. No matter what I seem to do with the startup timing something always bombs out. Initially it was usually the fileserver workload. I moved things about then the java workload was giving me an error saying that it did not run/complete ran for some amount of time but the expected time was whatever duration I had set. I am assuming that job may never have actually started and that was just how long it took to timeout.

I just set this all up this week and I am using the 3.3.4 version of staff, unmodified linux vm's downloaded from the vmware site, and all the latest versions of the other free products that were required, and finally specweb2005 and specjbb2005.

Is having the client run as a vm on the same host causing my problems? It seems like one tile should run just fine with the client as a VM. It may not be a certified spec config for reporting results but I would think it should work for my configuration testing.