I'm pretty sure this is a VMware problem (not a Fedora problem), but I have
asked the question over on the VMware support forum and, as usual, gotten
no response. So, I'm hoping that those of you here who run Fedora on
VMware on WinXP hosts may have run across this problem and found a solution.
VMware product: Workstation version 6.00 build 45731
Host: Windows XP SP2, Compaq/HP nw8240 laptop, 1 GB RAM
Guest: Fedora 7, 256 MB RAM allocated
Whenever I run VMware Workstation with Fedora 7, the host (WinXP-SP2) runs
out of "buffer space" fairly soon (usually within a half hour to an hour).
The symptoms are that Eudora (email) on Windows complains about "no buffer
space" when trying to download mail. And, when I open up a DOS box and try
to FTP to some remote site, the Windows FTP client complains about no
buffer space.
At this point Firefox web browser (under Windows) will silently fail to
load any pages... I click on a link, the circular activity icon in the
upper right corner will twirl around for a short while, then it will stop
and the new web page will not be loaded.
If I then shut down Fedora and VMware Workstation, the problem does not go
away... Eudora and the Windows FTP client still complain about no buffer
space, and Firefox web browser still won't load any new web pages.
The only fix is to reboot my laptop, then everything returns to normal.
I have tried installing and running RAMPage
(http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/index.html) to free up Windows
memory and that helps, but only serves to delay the issue rather than
eliminate it.
This is very annoying and a show-stopper for using VMware and F7 for any
serious purpose. Since about 90 percent of my F7 use is on my laptop with
VMware, this seriously impacts my ability to use F7 for any serious work at
all.
This didn't seem to happen with VMware 5.x or Fedora Core 6 and previous,
but I never tried running F7 on VMware 5, or FC6 and previous on VMware 6
(and have no real way of trying that now), so I don't have any immediate
information on which is causing the problem.
Any of you VMware users have any idea what's going on?
