VMware Server's stability over i686 and other arch

IdeCable · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 16

I want to know who's using VMWare server over Gentoo Linux, and over what arch. I must point out that it's the STABILITY that matters here. Is there anyone who was able to get an amd64 arch rock solid under Gentoo yet? So far, I only stick to the i686 arch. I hope I will get interesting replies to this.

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timeBandit · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:58 am Post subject:

I have used VMware Server on x86 since it was in beta test and from what I can recall it has been extremely stable. I don't ever recall a VM crash that I couldn't attribute to a problem in the guest OS, nor any problem with the admin console GUI since the beta went gold. It's up to you whether this is "interesting." :wink:

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IdeCable · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 16

Nice!! Thx for the quick reply!!!

So, *only* x86 is stable so far?

I am interested to know if it's worth it to do virtualization over other arch.

russK · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 665

I have been using vmware-server since Dec 20, 2007 on amd64 (just checked my emerge.log). Granted this is not a long time. It seems stable to me, no crashes whatsoever with Windows XP 64-bit guest OS. Just a couple issues:

* I can not add a USB device for some reason, Windows will not boot if I add it.
* Audio doesn't sound so great
* Clock did not keep correct time until I checked a box to sync clock with the host.
* Many annoying messages to dmesg log that fill up dmesg buffer from vmmon device: /dev/vmmon[9273]: host clock rate change request 83 -> 1043

I suspect some of these would be issues whether on amd64 or i686.

I'm still quite pleased that I don't need to dual boot anymore. This is working well for my needs.