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UNIX/Linux Distributions on VMware Workstation 6?

Which distributions are known to have great performance, but also excellent ease of use and compatibility on VMware Workstation 6? I have 2GB of real RAM in my system and Windows Vista Home Premium as a host operating system. I can almost always get away with alotting up to 1GB of RAM for my virtual machines and still have a stable system.

What would you recommend and if you also use VMware 6, how exactly did you configure VMware to run UNIX/Linux? More specifically, I am looking to run various flavors of Linux & BSD on VMware 6.

BTW, I am new here and this is my very first post! Smilie

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vmxnet3

VMXNET3(9)							   Open VM Tools							VMXNET3(9)

NAME

       vmxnet3 - vmware kernel module

SYNOPSIS

       modprobe vmxnet3

DESCRIPTION

       This is a Linux kernel device driver module that drives VMware's second fast networking device. As it is backed by real (virtual) hardware,
       it should be automatically loaded by hotplug or udev as needed. Unlike the older 'vmxnet' hardware, the 'vmxnet3' hardware does	not  morph
       and as such the modprobe-related logic isn't necessary.

SEE ALSO

       vmware-checkvm(1)
       vmware-hgfsclient(1)
       vmware-toolbox(1)
       vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)
       vmware-user(1)
       vmware-xferlogs(1)
       libguestlib(3)
       libvmtools(3)
       vmware-guestd(8)
       vmware-hgfsmounter(8)
       vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)
       vmblock(9)
       vmci(9)
       vmhgfs(9)
       vmmemctl(9)
       vmsock(9)
       vmsync(9)
       vmxnet(9)

HOMEPAGE

       More information about vmxnet3 and the Open VM Tools can be found at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR

       Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>.

       This  manual  page  was	put  together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

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