Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:27:14 +0000 | From | Tony Hoyle <> | Subject | Re: Determination of machine lockups |
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"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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