2017-02-01



This is complete shit! There's no robustness in VMware Player.

I do have a Debian GNU/Linux virtual machine on a Windows comput-
er.   Today, I plugged in a USB drive, attached it to the virtual
machine, then mounted it, copied some files  from  it,  then  un-
mounted  it,  then pulled it out. Next, VMware player crashed and
the virtual machine could not  be  resumed  anymore,  meaning  it
crashed  as well. How ridiculous! Isn't that a pretty common case
to pull out a USB drive when it is unmounted? Although  I  should
have detached it from the virtual machine first, it is plain stu-
pid to not handle this situation gracefully.  Small  ``failure'',
big impact -- this is anti-robustness. I'm really pissed off.

And furthermore, I have to realize that my common  working  style
-- having long running sessions that I detach and resume, instead
of shutting down and booting up -- appears to be  considered  un-
typical, strange, not covered, not supposed to be used, whatever.
I really hate the mainstream IT world today! :-(




http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>