Throttling VMware NIC

[hINTModuleState]

Hello evrybody,

I am challenged these days with the problem of remote system administration. The bandwidth is always not sufficient : ie the task of administration is really difficult and requires a deep preparation so that the small time

available is optimally invested on the rightful operations.

In order to try adpat myself to the real world scenario, I have had this idea of installing VMware at home, setting up a virtual machine (VM) then try to administer that VM from the host OS or visversa.

My problem is that since evrything executes locally on the powerful Intel CPU, then I really can't copy the real world behaviours : like the oproblem of mis synchronization between the remote screen image and the mouse clickks,etc

So my question, is how I can limit the bandwidth between the host Machine and the VM one ?

Thank you in advance.

Ahmed, Tunisia.

[birdie]

Look here for the answer: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1087189#1087189

[Scissor]

I think that if you set up a "Team" in VMware Workstation that you can define the speed and packet loss of the virtual LAN Segment connecting them.

[mikedp]

Unfortunately the team lan segment bandwidth control of Vmware workstation DOES NOT WORK

Please see my post at Team Lan Segment - bandwidth controls not working - shortform re-post

for complete details of testing & results, as well as some info about the third party solution we ended up going with.

I have been waiting for 1 year and a few days now, for a solution to come from Vmware.

Luckily I am very patient, altough everything does have limits , even patience itself.

Again: SHAME ON YOU VMWARE for touting a product feature which doesn't work.

[Scissor]

Unfortunately the team lan segment bandwidth control of Vmware workstation DOES NOT WORK

I just tested tonight and the Team LAN Segment bandwidth settings do work for me.

I am running Workstation 6.5 on a Vista 64-bit Host. My two Guests are 32-bit Windows Server 2003 (with VMware Tools installed).

I used a 33 MB test file and used Robocopy to copy to a mapped drive letter. Speeds below are reported by Robocopy (note they are reported in MB per minute)

Unlimited Bandwidth = 936 MB/min

1544 Kbps Bandwidth = 10.4 MB/min

4000 Kbps Bandwidth = 25 MB/min

4000 Kbps w/5% packet loss = 7.9 MB/min

[mikedp]

Having just upgraded to VMware workstation 6.5.1 build-126130, decided to re-test the team lan-segment bandwidth controls.

Hey Presto! Found to be working for both bandwidth control, and packet loss management.

Well done VMware, very good to find this feature is now working.

btw: another issue[ Numerous vmauthd ID 100 events logged in Application Event Log|http://communities.vmware.com/thread/120532?tstart=0&start=15]

was also resolved by this version upgrade from VMware-workstation-6.5.0-118166 to VMware-workstation-6.5.1-126130