VMWare Server isn’t really designed as a desktop virtualisation product (hence the “server” part of the name). That said, it is free.
I’d try VMWare Workstation and see if that solves your problem (I have no issues running Win7 clients in VMWare Workstation), or you can use the free VMWare Player product instead (which lets you create/run VMs, but doesn’t have snapshot etc abilities of VMWare Workstation) Also, as someone else posted, it may be a problem interacting with the underlying hardware (e.g. it’s waiting on some I/O to complete) Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 5 August 2010 1:33 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Mixing development software versions What version of VMware? The host machine is a 2 and a half year old dual core machine running Vista. I installed VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.exe which is the 507MB free server. I’ve been running more experiments with hardware acceleration and the VM Tools in different combinations. It seems that only setting the hardware acceleration totally OFF will overcome the Win7 freezes. Sadly, this cases the mouse to be slightly jittery, not as terribly jittery as it is with no VM Tools installed at all. Perhaps I can live with it like this just for the few weeks required to test all of my software in parallel. Other people here seem to be using different combinations of the VMWare software, or other VM products completely. Their list of VMWare products is bewildering. I was under the impression that only the Server that I’m using is free. I continue to experiment and I’ll report if I find anything useful. Greg
