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Barnhart, Robert M. wrote:

> I suspect a couple of things that might be affecting cygwin since yesterday:
> 
> 1) I installed VMware Player 2.5.0 build-118166, but have not run it yet.
> 2) I loaded a VM image of about ~30GB onto my hard drive, but did not execute it.
> 3) Our company (SAIC) may be remotely installing Windows services, patches or even software IAW company policies. I can't necessarily  tell when this  is happening.
> 
> Are there any known problems with VMware and cygwin? 

I'm using XP SP3 as my "host" machine and use vmWare Desktop
(not player)  to run lots of other OSen.

I do this to keep my host machine clean and I have only 3 or
4 apps like an editor and 7-zip running on the host machine.

I have a Cygwin 1.7 installation that lives on a USB key that
I use on the host machine occasionally. It works fine but
then again I have not updated it since last week.

I doubt that vmWare has much to do with this, but you might
want to see if there's any new anti-virus stuff running that
could be "checking" your files when they are being loaded...

Ralph

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