Ubuntu
vmware-server package

  1. Bug #262072
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 262072

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valeshino (alan-khalis) wrote :

After a lot of testing, I still haven't found what is causing the problem. The relevant host specs are:

Acer Aspire 2012wlmi
Intel Pentium M 1.5 GHz
Intel 855GME

I have resolved the issue by installing a command-line only 2.6.24-19-generic kernel system and now everything works fine.

I also found that when setting the guest OS vmware setting to something besides Linux->Ubuntu or Linux->Other 2.6.x kernel, the system would boot properly. ie - when creating a guest machine, I set it to Other->Other and the system would boot and run correclty, but performance was terrible.

The host OS was installed from the network using the livecd instructions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LocalNet#A%20variation:%20Booting%20the%20%22Live%20CD%22%20image

So, to reiterate, the system runs fine with 2.6.24-19-generic kernel installed from netboot hardy images on server cd with command-line only packages and any vmware guest settings.