VMplayer: Silencing excessive hard disk activity + getting rid of freezes

The disk is hammering For some unknown reason, possibly after an VMplayer upgrade, running any Windows Virtual machine on my Linux machine with WMware Player caused some non-stop heavy hard disk activity, even when the guest machine was effectively idle, and made had no I/O activity of its own. Except for being surprisingly annoying, it [...]

Posted Under: Virtualization
This post was written by eli on May 30, 2017 Comments (0)

Linux: Where the USB related kernel files are

A few notes on where to find USB related kernel files on a Linux system (kernel 3.12.20 in my case) $ lsusb [ ... ] Bus 001 Device 059: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Now find the position in the tree. It should be device 59 under bus number 1: $ lsusb -t [ ... ] [...]

Posted Under: Linux,Linux kernel,USB
This post was written by eli on May 17, 2017 Comments (0)