On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 13:50 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I have a CentOS 5.3 VM running under VMware on a WIndows XP laptop. > Everything works fine when connected to the network. However, > removed from the network, most everything in the CentOS VM takes > minutes to complete. For instance, starting a new Terminal window > takes over 3 minutes. I did an strace, and there are a couple of > long waits when trying to open a socket (/tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXXX for > instance). --- cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost john