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Well started messing around with VMware Server 1.x and was running into all kinds of issues again.
I finally got it compiled though and the raw disk support working. I was then able to start fresh with a new partition structure and installation and get Windows working.
Even though this was working I was still receiving some errors with the real-time clock and a few other things but they didn't seem to stop the VMware from working.
I then tried streaming the audio but found it was skipping/buffering for some reason on the client-end however the server wasn't throwing any errors and didn't seem to be having problems buffering?
The unfortunate part is that VMware Server 1.x is out-dated these days and was built for older Linux kernel's. A number of core functions it relies on have since been modified causing warning/errors during compiling. There are all sorts of hack-like patch files people have made to try and change the include files and modify functions which will get it working but it's not performing 100%. our compile was using 2-3 patches just to get the setup working.
I tried a number of things including recompiling the kernel a number of times to try and change the RTC device driver and did not have any success still had buffer issues.
So I said hell I'll try VMware Server 2.x one more time since we have 1.x working again on the new kernel.
I don't like VMware 2.x as much as a product because of their removal of the Server Browser and the introduction of their ESX style web interface administration and Infrastructure client. These to me have benefits but was not as simple/easy to use as just having a single executable that did its job like the browser did.
That being said I installed VMware Server 2.x and being a newer product it has some fixes for most of the newer kernel include file changes. This means it can compile without patches. I was able to apply one patch to get everything working for us and VMware Server 2.x booted! It also did not have the buffer problems that VMware Server 1.x seemed to have and did not throw any RTC errors.
So we were finally able to get VMware Server 2.x working. The good news too is that the guest as mentioned is performing a lot better in VMware than it was with VirtualBox for what we need to do. It has a consistent cpu load and seems a lot smoother under load. In VirtualBox the host cpu usage was spiking sporadically and kicking the server fans into high gear.
So finally we have success and I can now go back to what I was doing which was fixing the MySQL replication for requests etc.
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