Anybody familiar with VMWare tuning?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

There are many things that you can do.

*  Ensure disk type is non-dynamic
** The tool to change this is vmware-diskmanager or something like that

* Ensure vmware-tools are installed in the guest

* Ensure you are running on Linux host, because Windows VMware hosts are slow!

* Do you have a CPU with virtualization extensions?

* Do you have more than enough RAM in host and allocated to Guest?

* What does bonnie++ report while the guest is running?

* Did you disable debugging options for your VMware guest?

* Did you disable logging?

* Did you enable the mem_trim option in the VMX file?

* Did you upgrade your virtual hardware?

* Are you running the latest VMware Server 1.x?  2.x sucks btw...

I have much experience with VMware from my time at Cisco developing
the Cisco Computational Cloud automated tested infrastructure (4096
simultaneous virtual machines on 64 physical machines)
http://video.vmware.com/kickapps/service/displayMediaPlayPage.kickAction?mediaType=VIDEO&mediaId=72491&as=5054&b=

There are many other non-standard VMX options you might utilize.
Google for them...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."