Well, if you're going to report a problem you had with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Debian, I'll make the obvious response: you should really switch to Debian. It's a much better distribution. :) And KVM or Xen are nice, free alternatives to VMware. For a more helpful response, you may want to report this problem to Red Hat and/or VMware, since there's not a lot we can do about either product. -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>