On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:47 -0800, alan wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Mercury Morris wrote: > > > I would post this to the VMware Community Discussion, > > but I'm afraid that it would expose an email address. <snip...> > > Installation is smooth, but after that, the ride gets quite bumpy. > > Starting a guest results in a never-ending series of messages > > about waiting for a CoreDump. The failing process has to be > > killed. After applying a work-around for this problem (by setting > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.8) you learn that the Beta has been > > built with DEBUG permanently set ON. You can't turn it off. > > The result: Guests run so slow, you think the Beta has died. > > I thought the coredumps were just a problem with the Athlon64 I am using. > > Oh well... Thanks for the info. Actually, according to forum discussions on VMware's site, this is an issue with permissions - possibly SELinux. Launching a guest OS as root seems to get rid of the problem. Cheers, Chris -- ==================================== "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' someone else's dog around." --Cowboy Wisdom
