making vmware-server go faster... ( turn debug off )

An excellent tip ( via Donavan ). By default the vmware-server beta ( the free version that everyone seems to be running these days ) is a lot slower than the retail ESX / GSX products that vmware punts. Reason behind that is they have debug mode turned on in the beta product.

Fix - Stop the VM's

/etc/init.d/vmware stop

should do this. If you don't have the VMware Tools installed its better to shut down your guest systems manually before stopping VMware.

Now go to the vmware lib directory at /usr/lib/vmware.

There you'll find a directory called bin-debug. Move it to a new location, e.g.

mv /usr/lib/vmware/bin-debug /usr/lib/vmware/bin-debug.bak

Now make a symlink from the bin directory to bin-debug:

ln -s /usr/lib/vmware/bin /usr/lib/vmware/bin-debug

The bin directory contains the binaries stripped from debugging code. At least it did so on my installation :-)
After creating the symlink, simply start up VMware Server:

/etc/init.d/vmware start

Originally posted at this place

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Karanbir Singh