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
(
Read more... )