turn off debug in VMWare 6.5beta (windows)

I’m playing with VMWare workstation 6.5beta(build-91182) and was looking to do some advanced configurations, specifically running ESX 3.5U1 , therefore i was interested in maximum performance to squeak out as much out of my laptop….

A couple things i found out really quick 1) set the Virtualization setting in your systems BIOS if you have one. My core duo did , my centrino did not. This speeded things up considerably, i’d say by a factor of 10.

2) The VMWare workstation process wants to run VM’s with the vmware-vmx-debug binary, and it indicates that you must live with this. Upon closer inspection in the application directory (C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation) I found vmware-vmx and its about 2MB smaller binary. So what I did was rename vmware-vmx-debug to vmware-vmx-debug-orig and then copy vmware-vmx to vmware-vmx-debug.

Bron: jthomasser.wordpress.com

5 Responses to “turn off debug in VMWare 6.5beta (windows)”

  1. John Says:

    Anyone figured out how to turn the debugging of in the latest beta build-99530?

  2. arjanhs Says:

    I thought it worked the same way, I’m currently using it configured like this

  3. Redbeard Says:

    The debug issue doesn’t apply for Workstation 6.5 in Linux, correct? If so, how to disable it? TIA

  4. arjanhs Says:

    I think you can use the same trick if needed, but i don’t think the debug version is running in the RTM version.

  5. Amanda Says:

    just meandered in….

    Wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but cool site. All the best….

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