02.18.07
An Old VMWare Trick Revisited
A couple of years ago I posted a tip on a forum I frequent on how to disable debug mode with VMWare Betas. It's recently come to my attention that not everyone who uses VMWare is aware of this ability, so I thought I'd share the tip once again.
VMWare Betas ship with debugging information turned on, the idea being that you can report any problems back to VMWare. The problem is that debugging information turned on means a decrease in performance.
To disable debugging under Linux:
cd /usr/lib/vmware
mv bin-debug bin-debug.bak
mkdir bin-debug
cd bin
cp vmware-vmx* ../bin-debug
To disable debugging under Windows:
Browse to your installation directory.
Rename bin-debug to bin-debug.bak
Create a copy of bin
Rename the copy of bin to bin-debug
You'll now have the option to disable debugging in your VM Options.
Tyler Reguly said,
March 5, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I just received a message that VMWare has wised up to this and removed this work around with the VMWare 6 betas… I haven’t played with these betas yet… so I can’t confirm this myself, but when I can I’ll play around and see if any other options are available.