Showing posts with label ntfs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ntfs. Show all posts

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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%.