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Re: cygwin under vmware freezes
- From: Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri dot apana dot org dot au>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:38:14 +1000
- Subject: Re: cygwin under vmware freezes
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
- Organization: minkirri
- References: <a9d8eq$trl$1@main.gmane.org>
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:56:00 +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> G'day cygwin'ers,
>
> I realise this is probably a vmware problem, but does anyone else have
> problems running cygwin in a win98 guest under vmware on a linux host?
>
> I have the cygwin console stuttering then totaly freezing win98 within a
> minute.
For the record, after filing an incident report with VMware they
identified the problem as caused by the VMware mouse driver. Installing a
standard mouse driver fixed the problem.
This was with VMware v3.1.1-1491 and cygwin 3.1.0. I suspect the next
version of VMware will have the problem fixed.
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