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BUMPED: Disabling Debugging in VMware Server 2.0 Beta RC

BUMPED: With the release of VMware Server 2.0 RC, I figured it useful to bump this post from early in the year. If you download the RC and plan to use it for hosting virtual machines, you'll want to disable debugging so that the VMs operate with decent speed.

By default with VMware Server 2.0 Beta, debugging mode is enabled for all hosted virtual machines. This has been the case with every VMware beta product that I can remember. The problem with debugging mode is that it significantly slows down the performance of all on-board virtual machines so much as to make them unusable.

This time, however, there is no easy way to disable it. However, I have found the following workaround for users who host VMware Server on Linux...

If you're running VMware Server on a Linux host, you can run the following commands to disable the enforced debugging mode. In doing it myself, my virtual machines increased in speed significantly:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/bin
mv vmware-vmx-debug vmware-vmx-debug.bkup
ln -s vmware-vmx vmware-vmx-debug
mv vmware-remotemks-debug vmware-remotemks-debug.bkup
ln -s vmware-remotemks vmware-remotemks-debug

A service restart might be required in order to do this. Now, I'm mostly a Windows administrator, so I just rebooted the box (just to be sure).

Now by doing this I can effectively test and evaluate the product. If you're reading this blog, VMware, please stop this behavior in future releases. If you want testers like myself and others to familiarize themselves with your products please don't enforce features that make the process exceptionally painful for us!

This info sourced from: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/112685?tstart=0

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Posted by Greg Shields on July 8, 2008 12:30 AM |

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Comments

This also works for Server 2 beta 2. Much faster.

Posted by: Sean Keery | April 2, 2008 5:44 PM

Works for Windows as well. The exe is in the VMware Server folder.

Posted by: Colin Bowern | May 25, 2008 1:59 AM

Nice work. My images are running significantly faster..

Thanks!

Posted by: joe | July 21, 2008 9:50 AM

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Greg Shields, is an independent author, instructor, and IT consultant based in Denver, Colorado, and a co-founder of Concentrated Technology. With nearly 15 years of experience in information technology, Greg has developed extensive experience in systems administration, engineering, and architecture specializing in Microsoft systems management, remote application, and virtualization technologies. Greg is a Contributing Editor for Redmond Magazine, MCPmag.com, and Virtualization Review Magazine and is the author of five books, including Windows Server 2008:  What’s New / What’s Changed. Greg is also a highly sought-after instructor and speaker, speaking regularly at conferences like TechMentor Events, and producing computer-based training curriculum for CBT Nuggets.  Greg is a recipient of Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" award with a specialization in Windows Terminal Services.