SOLVED: vmplayer dying on lenny/amd64

[michael bane <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:42, michael wrote:

> I've recently upgraded my amd64 box from etch to lenny. I had been  
> using
> VMware's free vmplayer on etch (to run a WinXP guest) without  
> problems.
> However, under lenny (with an un-install and then a new install of
> vmplayer by running VMware-Player-2.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle) I've  
> had a
> few problems and was wondering if anybody could advise?
>
> a) vmplayer sometimes says the CMOS is wrong
>
> b) vmplayer frequently hangs - lots of cpu usage, not disk bound, but
> unresponsive (can occasionally click on XP's start or a program but
> nothing happens)
>
> Thanks, Michael

I binned my guest image, grabbed a copy of a known-working one, and  
been fine since.