vmware locks up my computer

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corefile · Post by **corefile** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:35 pm

I've installed vmware and after I run vmware-config (no problems) I run vmware, and my box just freezes/locks up. I can't even ctr+backspace to retart X, I can even ssh into my box to reboot it, I have to do a very ungraceful push the powerbuttom reboot. I have no idea what is causeing this. I have searched all around. Nothing in the logs. I've tried unmerging and remerging with no luck. I just don't know where to go from here.

I'm using gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.10r6 and nothing out of the ordinary with the rest of my config.

mascanho · Post by **mascanho** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:21 pm

has you may know vmware as an emulation program requires a lot of your pc , ram cpu etc , now it depend on the amount of ram and swap you have on your box, and when you run vmware you should turn off other programs that you may have running

corefile · Post by **corefile** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:36 pm

Thanks for the reply but I don't think we are talking about the same thing. I have 512MB of ram and 1024 of swap. Even if I have nothing else running it does it, and I'm not talking about my maching gets slow, it completly locks up, I could leave it for 3 hours and come back and its still locked up, this is not a vmware is a resource hog issue, this is an application is locking up the box issue, something a user space application should not be able to do on a linux box. That is why I'm thinking it has something to do with the kerenel modules.

edit: now that I think about it I should have posted this in the kerenel section.

mascanho · Post by **mascanho** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:55 pm

yes you should, probably something on your ram or cpu settings , and btw it only happens with vmware ?

corefile · Post by **corefile** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:03 pm

Yep, vmware only.

mascanho · Post by **mascanho** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:41 pm

thats really strange try checking on your logs to see if theres something related to it, if not i would defenetly check my kernel configuration again

PS: wich version of vmware are you using ?

corefile · Post by **corefile** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:23 pm

I'm using the wmware 5.0 beta rc2

gothbox · Post by **gothbox** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:46 pm

ive had exactly the same problem ... just installed 2.6.10-r6..
used 2.6.10-r5 before with no problem, now it just hangs after a couple of hours , nothing in the logs whatsoever .
thought it might had been my webcam, just gots it installed and straming on my priv webserver, but there's no problem running X without vmware.. im using vmware 4.5.2.8848-r5..
no problems before, serveral days uptime both on guest os and gentoo..

mascanho · Post by **mascanho** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:59 pm

@ corefile has you may know thats the unstable version , have you tried the stable version of vmware ?

penquissciguy · Post by **penquissciguy** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:10 am

I'm having the same issue. I'm also running kernel 2.6.10-r6. I installed vmware and ran vmware-config.pl with no problems. Whenever I try to start a vm, my machine locks hard. I'm using vmware 4.5.2.8848-r5 as well.

Ken

penquissciguy · Post by **penquissciguy** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:56 am

Okay, got things running here. I emerged gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r7 (added "=sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r7 ~x86" to my portage.keywords), copied my old .config over from 2.6.10-r6, and ran "make oldconfig" and "make && make modules_install". Once I rebooted with the new kernel, I reran vmware-config.pl and started vmware. Ran without a hitch.

Ken

mascanho · Post by **mascanho** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:12 am

Strange though , vmware comes patched for 2.6 kernel it should work, any strange error on logs ??

penquissciguy · Post by **penquissciguy** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:07 pm

Evidently, something changed in 2.6.10-r6 that vmware didn't like on some configurations. I got some kind of ASSERT error in vmware.log. The error came about as one of the video modules was trying to load and couldn't access a certain memory address. The kernel upgrade seemed to fix whatever issue I had.

Ken

mascanho · Post by **mascanho** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:44 pm

So it only happens non gentoo-dev-sources -r6 correct ??

sgt_b · Post by **sgt_b** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:44 pm

Exact same problem here.

I was running gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.10-r6. Installed vmware, tried to run in full screen mode, but it gave me crap about the kernel using framebuffer. Reconfigured the kernel to disable frame buffer support (:(). Rebooted with a small non framebuffer screen

, started Xorg, and everything looked fine. Everything ran fine absolutely no problems until I started vmware. Hard lock, had to power off.

Went to gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.10-r7, and no problems except some crap about no DGA modes....

So it would appear that only r6 is affected as the same problems are not present in r7.

penquissciguy · Post by **penquissciguy** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:52 am

To get rid of the dga message, you need to comment out the 'Option "omit xfree86-dga"' line in your xorg.conf.

Ken

sgt_b · Post by **sgt_b** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:14 pm

Done, thanks for the reply. As of right now, vmware is running fine in full screen mode. The only issue is that I'm forced to not use a framebuffer as I get errors in vmware if its configured.

vmware locks up my computer

vmware locks up my computer

thanks but I don't think that is it

yep

vmware hangs