Have you tried Virtualbox? I think it often works better for "desktop" virtualization (where you don't need all the bells and whistles of VMware) and it might handle your chip (that lacks VT) better.
Chris On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > After some angst and gnashing of teeth, I now have vmware player v4.02 > running on a Ubuntu 12.04 x64 desktop w/ 8GB of RAM. The processor > predates the virtualization chip stuff but it's a dual core. VMware isn't > keeping everything "just so" with 3.n kernel stuff yet; patches needed. > > Loaded an image of a Windows 7 32 bit system and explicitly allocated 2GB > of memory to the vm. Top (on the host) quickly shot up to consuming all > 8GB of real memory and chomps on swap. Really? > > So far, I like the looks of Player better than VirtualBox. > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
