Tirsdag 16 januar 2007 02:53 skrev John Andersen: > On Monday 15 January 2007 16:16, Joachim Schrod wrote: > > AFAIK, this happens if your host system is an SMP system (i.e., with > > multiple CPUs) and your guest system is configured as a > > single-processor CPU. The VMware instance seems to see only half of > > the jiffies on a 2-CPU system, or something like that. > > > > I don't know a way to resolve it short of configuring the VMware > > instance to use several CPUs as well. > > Configuring guests with multiple CPUs probably won't help. It often > makes it worse to the point of being unusable. > > To further pin this down, its only happens on multi-processor > smp systems where the individual processors to not keep > their timestamp counters (TSCs) in sync, such as some AMD machines > and Core 2 Duo processors. > > You can prevent any problem by restricting a guest machine to a single cpu > rather than allowing it to bounce around from cpu to cpu. > > You can do this like this > > 1 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off. > 2 In a text editor, open the virtual machine's configuration file (.vmx > file). 3 Add the following line for each processor with which you do not > want to associate the virtual machine (where <n> is the number of the > processor on the host): > processor<n>.use = FALSE > > So for your first Virtual machine you might put in: > processor0.use = FALSE > and your second virtual machine you would put: > processor1.use = FALSE > > That allows VMware to run using both processors, but the actual virtual > machine itself is using only one or the other. > > You an also use taskset to restrict all of vmware to a single cpu. > > http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/316/2039_f.SAL_Public.html
Thank You! - as we cannot power down the affected system right now, we can't give it a shot until later today. - but your solutions sound very plausible, we'll keep the list posted! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
