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

Sun Apr 1 03:56:53 UTC 2007
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On 3/31/07, WipeOut <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi.. Does anyone have any ideas how to speed up CentOS when its running
> as a guest OS under VMWare server??
>
> It seems to be really slow...
> _______________________________________________


Multiple steps:

1) Install the vmware tools for the system. That increases performance
greatly as vmware can then start caching memory better

2) I found that not using LVM increases performance



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