Pfsense 1.2.2 on vmware server loaded on centos 5.3

[cal_j]

I am looking to go virtual with pfsense on what I think is decent hardware pc.

My current setup is:
emachine t3104
CentOS 5.3 base install (no gui)
1 gb of ram
2x Intel Dual head PCI Ethernet card (eth0 - 3)
1x onboard nic (not used in vmware only for ssh into the box)
2x 40gb hd in lvm.

the pfsense vms are as follows:
fw01
384mb ram
35 gb hd
wan bridged to eth0
lan bridged to eth1

fw02
384 mb of ram
35 gb hd
wan bridged to eth2
lan bridged to eth3

I was testing this out last night on fw01 (fw02 is not built yet) by downloading roughly 10 gb of data. I left for a little bit to run errands to come home and the entire box was locked. I could not access anything from the console of centos as the whole box was locked up.

Anybody using the free vmware server on linux and having issues? Anybody have any thoughts as to why this is doing this?

Thanks

[ideaman007]

Did you ever determine if this was an ongoing issue and/or find a fix for it?  I'm not having lockup problems (not hard locks anyway), I'm having network freezing issues myself using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server as host machine, vmware server 2.01 free, pfsense (or any other linux guest) and whenever there is guest internet traffic, the host system becomes unresponsive (remotely, since I'm 1.5 hours away from it).

[xerxes]

If your hostmachine has just virtu boardflag.. I would try proxmox (www.proxmox.com). Install it as KVM then map your NICs.. It's working remarkably here with less overhead than VMwareserver.