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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:37:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: Joost Kraaijeveld <J DOT Kraaijeveld AT Askesis DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian   2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp?
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:16 -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>> Sounds like a reinstallation of "binutils", at least, is in order.  While
>> you're at it, reinstall gcc bits too.
> A full reinstallation of Cygwin did not help.
>
> I wonder if there is actually anyone who is running W2K/Cygwin in VMWare
> on Linux?

Actually, yes, there is: me :)

My config is Win2k SP2 running as a guest in VMware 5.0 workstation with
Linux Slackware 10.0 (with 2.6.12 kernel) as the host.  I'm running this
config at home and at work.

I've not seen your specific problem before, but I think I've seen
something like it.  It's unlikely that it's because of vmware, unless you
have host' disk corruption.  I remember one time I ran out of physical
disk space, so when the vm tried to expand the virtual disk, it failed,
and Win2k behaved very badly as a result.  Even after I'd freed space to
allow for the vdisk to expand, NT was unstable thereafter.

> --
> Groeten,
>
> Joost Kraaijeveld
> Askesis B.V.
> Molukkenstraat 14
> 6524NB Nijmegen
> tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277
> fax: 024-3608416
> e-mail: J DOT Kraaijeveld AT Askesis DOT nl
> web: www.askesis.nl

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
 	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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