Am 30.04.2010 16:41, schrieb Florian Philipp: > I just want to tell you that I experience similar problems with > vmware-player.
Good to hear that ... in a way. > I'm currently on kernel 2.6.32. The guest system is a > Ubuntu with an Oracle Express database (used for a database lecture > I'm taking). I had those problems with 2.6.32 as well. Should try to go back further for a check ... > The system feels like it swaps out the complete host system when I > switch to the guest system and vice versa although there is plenty > of free memory. It is so bad that the system becomes completely > unusable for more than 15 minutes. I didn't investigate it yet > because I don't really need that guest OS. Good for you ;-) It's not THAT bad here, but the XP-guest takes a while to boot, yes. Right now I simply don't shutdown the guest and hibernate-to-ram the whole linux-box. Thanks, Stefan