Please list any known issues you discover here.
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alexp, Athena VM If a .vmss (VMware suspended state) file is around when you launch a VM, networking can be irreparably broken even if the VM had previously been halted. The only fix seems to be to remove the .vmss file from the VM directory.
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alexp, Athena VM I've seen Kerberos tickets and tokens disappear on a running VM, long before they're due to expire, for no obvious reason.
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alexp, Athena VM I've had problems running the VPN in the host OS. Running it in the guest seems to work for me.
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Time sync is wonky with VMs. This should be explored further and documented. Early reports are that it can get out of sync by significant amounts (hours) fairly quickly. alexp, Athena VM This has been seen to happen even if the VMware Tools time synchronization option is enabled. On Athena virtual machines, this kills Kerberos and AFS since these depend sensitively on time.
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alexp, Athena VM Leaving a VM suspended for about 5 days and subsequently resuming results in broken network and AFS. Restarting these as root did not fix them. It was necessary to reboot the VM. Athena 9.4.43 VMs can't be updated to latest release due to rpm conflict between WMware Tools in the VM and VMware Player in the Athena release (introduced after 9.4.43).
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VMware Fusion Virtual Machines are automatically excluded from Time Machine backups. This appears to be in response to an apple bug in 10.5 that may have been resolved in 10.5.2, though there is no formal word from VMware.See http://communities.vmware.com/message/882448#882448 for more info.
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