Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:23:33 +0800 | From | Yan Li <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware guest detection for x86 and x86-64 |
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:13:14PM +0300, Cristi Magherusan wrote: > > > We can also use this feature to force the HZ value to 100 or 250 at most > > > when running in a virtual environment, since VirtualBox had some issues > > > with this by taking a lot of CPU time when the HZ was set to 1000. > > > > That's good. But this function is used for detecting VMware guest > > only. Do you think VMware also suffers from this problem? > > > I don't know for sure about VMware, but someone who has it installed can > try it. I had this issue with a CentOS 5-server virtual machine > downloaded from http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ > > The fix consisted in using a kernel compiled with the HZ value set to > 100 instead of the default which was 1000.
Oh I never heard about this. I've been using several VMware VMs (combined RHEL and SLES and Debian) but haven't seen such issue. What's the symptom?
-- Li, Yan
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