Takes a Licking, Keeps on Ticking

A network fault caused VMware to chock the proverbial chicken since I am running FC5 from a network drive. In fact, even after getting the connection reestablished, it still would not go down in an orderly fashion. I had only been using the session to ssh over to another server to do some work so I was hoping that I only lost the VMware log in the process. So after rebooting my laptop (for an unrelated reason), I fired up VMware again. Everything appeared normal so I then turned the power on for FC5 and, other than taking a few extra minutes to check disk integrity, it came up like a champ! I had installed xmms this morning and it is still in place and works just fine. I am assuming (got to RTFM) that they do disk buffering and they must write out frequently and a lot, something I am thankful for in a situation like this one. Score a big one for VMware!