Stable VMware Workstation in 2.6.26
After over a week of bashing my head against a wall I think I've finally got VMware (Workstation 6.5) running solidly under 2.6.26.
The solution appears to simply be to lock it to a single core:
for proc in `pgrep vm`; do sudo taskset -p -c 1 $proc; done
In this example I'm using pgrep to find all vmware related processes, and taskset to lock them to CPU#1 (the second core on my laptop), as I run only single-core VM's I don't have any issues there.
I've no idea what changed in 2.6.26 to make this necessary, but this might help someone out there.
Update: Talked too soon, locking to a single core has helped, but things still stutter on occasion.
The solution appears to simply be to lock it to a single core:
for proc in `pgrep vm`; do sudo taskset -p -c 1 $proc; done
In this example I'm using pgrep to find all vmware related processes, and taskset to lock them to CPU#1 (the second core on my laptop), as I run only single-core VM's I don't have any issues there.
I've no idea what changed in 2.6.26 to make this necessary, but this might help someone out there.
Update: Talked too soon, locking to a single core has helped, but things still stutter on occasion.