Workstation 5.5.3 build-34685,
Suse 10.2 x86-64 Host,
Vista guest,
Dell 9400 laptop Core 2 Duo 2gig ram.
Very often (so often as to be virtually unusable) VMware will
cause my entire X server to freeze such that the Keyboard and Mouse
are totally unusable.
The guest machine is totally unresponsive and no activity
is shown
The HOST is still running, clock in task bar updating but it
will not respond to the mouse or keyboard.
GKrellm shows processor utilization dropping to near zero,
and bursts of intense disk activity lasting close to 30 seconds
followed by a lull, then more intense disk activity.
Reading other threads, I have my VM locked to a single cpu
(because if allowed to migrate as it wishes processor utilization
jumps to 100% on both cpu). My cpu is locked on high performance
so they will not be throttling up and down.
If I do nothing in the guest, it does not lock up the machine.
But any activity in the guest will lock the Xserver solid (or
prevent any input - gkrellm still shows changing activity so
obviously video output still works.
SSH into the laptop from another machine still works.
After 5 minutes the lock will clear and I can continue
working in the vm for another 2 to 6 minutes.
What is this problem, and when will it be fixed. I see other
references going back almost 6 months on 5 minute freezes.
