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From: Donovan Baarda <abo AT minkirri DOT apana DOT org DOT au>
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Subject: Re: cygwin under vmware freezes
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:38:14 +1000
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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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