Openvas consistantly hangs VM

[bacincnybt]

BackTrack Version: BT5R1-GNOME-VM-32
System Info: AMD Phenom II Dual-Core, 64-bit, 8 Gb RAM
OS/Software Info: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, VM Workstation 8.0.0 build-471780

I walked through this post to make sure Openvas was installed correctly: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/OpenVas

Using either the web/http interface, or the Greenbone Desktop interface I am able to add targets and create tasks. However, as soon as I kick off a scan (start a task); the complete VM hangs; host CPU spikes repeatedly, the vmware-vmx.exe is top process.

I've rebuilt the VM and reinstalled Openvas several times, behaviour is consistent.

I presume it's trying to conduct the scan, but is this normal behavior? Can the scan be throttled to not consume all of the VMs resources?

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
bc

[manzamanna]

Did you upgraded VM's version without upgrading vmware-tools?
For now, I preferred to keep the VM at his original version and its original vmware-tools, I have no issues