[CentOS] odd vmplayer problem

Wed Dec 7 19:31:54 UTC 2005
Maciej Żenczykowski <maze at cela.pl>

Maybe try booting the machine in question with a non-highmem enabled 
kernel  (for example command line parameter ram=768m I think)?

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Is anyone using vmplayer with centos4.2 as the host?  I have several
> machines where it works great other than an error that says
> "*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice" in the xterm window
> where it is started.  However, on one machine it will start to boot
> windows virtual machines (both win2000 and XP) and they hang about
> 3/4 through where the progress bar goes across the screen - and of
> course this is the machine where I really want to run it.  The
> machine is an IBM eserver with dual xeons and 4 gigs RAM. A very similar
> but not quite identical machine with less RAM does not have the same
> problem.  Could the memory be an issue?  This same machine that
> has trouble with the windows virtual machines works OK with
> the downloadable Browser Appliance vm which turns out to be a basic
> ubuntu installation.
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