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SubjectRe: Determination of machine lockups
"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> I'm running 2.0.36, and have been using it since it came out.
> Just recently I installed VMWARE beta, and recompiled my kernel
> to have a few features that VMWARE requires. I had a few lockups
> while using vmware, and I immediately attributed them to the
> product itself since it uses 2 provided kernel modules.
>
> The product worked just fine, however after a while my machine
> would 100% freeze, with nothing in the logfiles at all. No way
> of determining exactly what it was.

I have had this. It is a bug in vmware, although I haven't worked
out what precisely causes it. The solution is to put a CDROM in the
drive. It locks up because Windows polls /dev/cdrom regularly and
seems to die randomly if it can't do so.

Since I put a CDROM in the drive I have had NT workstation running in
a window for over 24 hours without a hitch.

Tony

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