VMware machine on Linux over NTFS

When you get any VMware host software on Linux (Server or Workstation) running any guest on NTFS filesystem, you get ntfs-3g to 100% CPU usage on a regular basis.

This can be overiden by setting

• mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

in the .vmx definition file.

This gets 'mount.ntfs-3g' CPU usage back to manageable levels... 3~10%.