As with lolz, it make no difference whether the DVD drive is "attached" the VM or not, performance still stinks.

I agree totoally. I'm looking every day for hacks to make this work.

It's definatley the Inspiron Hardware. I've tried Ubuntu Warty and even Gentoo. Hoary was better, Gentoo a little more so than Hoary, but nothing like running VMWare on my desktop or previous laptop.

As of right now, I've reduced my use of VMware to simply checking my corporate e-mail. Even that is *painfully* slow. Someone please help.

Kevin

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ScatterBrain

And just to confuse everybody a little more...I've taken a "VM Movie" of the system showing what I'm experiencing. THe movie is located here:

http://www.klcollins.org/files/vmware-perf

I looked at the movie and what bothers me is that it looks almost like the movie is playing a twice the normal speed of what's actually happening. So just imagine everything in that movie taking _at_least_ twice as long.

petr,

I assure you, when it's in "performance" mode, the machine is most surely running at 2GHz.

root@enterprise:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1995.624
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx est tm2
bogomips : 3940.35

root@enterprise:~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
performance


I switch to 'performance' mode just before I fire up VMware - every time since the reload of Ubuntu. The very first VMware session was OK, all other since crappy.

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ScatterBrain

The Host Clock does change, I see it going from 0 to 19, and then 19 to 83 and staying there until I close vmware down. Then it goes from 83 to 19 and then from 19 to 0.

Here's a 'dmesg' snippet:
=============================================================
[4297105.157000] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[4297139.958000] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 10136 (vmware-vmx)
[4297139.958000] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[4297140.062000] /dev/vmmon[10142]: host clock rate change request 0 -> 19
[4297145.565000] /dev/vmmon[10142]: host clock rate change request 19 -> 83
[4297178.819000] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 10142 (vmware-vmx)
[4297178.819000] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[4297406.155000] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 10142 (vmware-vmx)
[4297406.155000] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[4297406.255000] /dev/vmmon[10142]: host clock rate change request 83 -> 19
[4297406.361000] /dev/vmmon[10136]: host clock rate change request 19 -> 0
[4297406.401000] vmmon: Had to deallocate locked 183279 pages from vm driver c21b4000
[4297406.406000] vmmon: Had to deallocate AWE 2213 pages from vm driver c21b4000
=============================================================

Yes, I'm running VMware 5.0, build 13124 that I downloaded from the VMware website around the first of this month.

I have tried the VM with and without the CDROM and Floppy, but I have _not_ tried it without USB until just now - it did not help.