APM: OT: VMware Rocks!

[Wayne Walker]

I know this is off topic, but since I use VMware for testing perl based
code all the time, I thought I'd share this cool experience I just had
with VMware!

Wow!

I've always been a proponent of VMware, but it just moved up two
notches!  ("but VMware goes to eleven!")

All of the sudden, data transfer from my build machines to the virtual
machines on my testbed (a single 3G P4 running 5 to 12 VM's, 5 right
now)
slowed to a crawl.  I assumed something flaky with the testbed server.

So, I had open ssh sessions to 3 of the VM's from my notebook.

I went into the VMware instances (running in Xvnc :) and suspended
the servers.  I then shutdown the VMware GUIs.  Finally a ran "init 0"
on the testbed server.  When the machine powered off, I pulled the plug
(to power cycle the ethernet card since most motherboards keep the eth's
live at all times (wake on lan).

Then I booted back up, started 3 Xvnc sessions, started up a VMware
window in each.  Unsuspended the 5 VMs, went back to my desk.

The ssh sessions to the VM's were still live and usable!!! even the 2
that had been running top!

Just had to share that folks.

Wayne

P.S. - Of course the machines running in the VMware sessions were Linux
(RedHat 8 and 9 to be specific :)

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