[CentOS] Centos really slow as VMware Server guest OS..

[Dhivan Djaganu]

On 3/31/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Give it more RAM, put the disk image on a faster drive.  All the things
> that apply to real systems still have the same effects.


I gave it 1 Gb and vmfs is on SCSI RAID 0 (test node),  oldish but not too
much  2/2x2.88 Xeon PowerEdge that runs 2 moderatly loaded 4-node W2003
clusters with MS SQL quite well. A single instance of CentOS 4.4 on the same
ESX 2.5.4 is quite a load already. Everything is slow. Right now I am
reading docs trying to find ways to tune it up.
The only advice from this rookie is to backup the gold master before you
crash it by updating to a new kernel or install VM Tools from a newer WS or
Server. Those are reported to be peppier with RHEL than the ones from ESX.
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