[CentOS] vmware tools in CentOS5 guest?

[Les Mikesell]

Ken Key wrote:
> Paul Norton wrote:
>  > Either of you notice poor performance?  My mouse is jumpy and freezes,
>  > especially when I try to resize a terminal window.  The whole thing
>  > feels slugish.  This is with vmware workstation 6 and either Lunar Linux
>  > or Ubuntu as a host.  I'm sure other distros as hosts.
> 
> I didn't noticed any sluggishness, but this was a quick
> graphical side project (a KDE kiosk) so  I really don't
> have a good baseline to compare it with.  I mainly use VMware
> Server with run-level 3 guests running tinderbox builds.  I
> recently reinstalled the host OS to CentOS 5/VMware Server
> 1.03 and the builds are +/- 1min wall clock what they were.

You don't have to use the vmware console.  After you are up and running 
you can use ssh, vnc, an XDM login, or freenx just like you would for 
remote access to a physical machine.

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   Les Mikesell
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