VMware

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Known Issues

The sections below detail known issues with using VMware discovered by the IS&T Vmware release team during testing.   Additional known issues provided by VMware can be found in the Release Notes for each product.  For details, see the VMware Workstation 6.0.x Release Notes and Vmware Fusion Release Notes.

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Changing VMware Fusion to "optimize for Mac OS application performance" via Fusion's preferences may cause your virtual machine or entire OS to hang, possibly corrupting the virtual machine disk.   To avoid this, users should use the default setting of "optimize for virtual machine disk performance."  Apple and VMware are working to resolve this issue.  For more information, see VMware's Team Fusion blog

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The code that Red Hat Linux uses to discover network interfaces at boot time can produce some difficult to interpret behavior under VMware. Red Hat Linux records the ethernet interface hardware address (also called the MAC address). Every time it sees a new MAC address it moves aside the old network configuration, and creates a new one which completely ignores any network settings previously used and instead uses DHCP to set the IP address.

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