In message <200108020040.UAA04234@anduin.eldar.org>, Brad Spencer writes:

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>This sort of thing has *always* happened to me when I run MS-WINDOWS 2000
>in a virtual machine.
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>Basically, it appears that if things have to start to page that there is a
>chance that the machine will hang.  I can almost always trigger this by
>starting two vmware sessions at the same time.
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>And, for reasons that are not clear, when you shut down a virtual machine
>that has been running MS-WINDOWS 2000, the vmware process will hang,
>followed by the system.

Interesting.  I'm running win98se, but it sure sounds like an 
interaction between the two paging systems.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb