Tuning up VMware Server on Linux
When I finished my VMware Server 1.0.4 installation on Debian Etch with a 2.6.22.9 Kernel and moved all customers to the new server I was very disappointed. The overall performance was very poor on a dual Opetorn system with 2 GB memory and I had no explanation for it. After a little testing I figured that I gave all the available memory to use for the VMs and left almost nothing over for the server itself. When I pushed about 100 MB of memory free for the server itself the performace improved a lot.
But after all. A VMware Server with six running VMs doesn’t fit into 2 GB of memory. Start with three, be certain with four GB of main memory.