On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, SilverTip257 wrote:
> I have a WinXP Pro 32bit VM with virtio drivers and it runs just fine.
> I don't watch the load on it, so I don't know if its CPU goes idle. I'll
> have to take a peek at it next week.
I have XP, 2003 and Win7 with virtio drivers, and the CPU does go idl
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Zoltan Frombach wrote:
> I've also heard that older versions of Windows don't put the CPU to
> "idle mode" even when there is nothing to do. It is a known problem with
> older Windows kernels.
>
Windows 98 and the like don't idle. It requires software to help idl
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 06:48 +0100, Zoltan Frombach wrote:
> I've also heard that older versions of Windows don't put the CPU to
> "idle mode" even when there is nothing to do. It is a known problem with
> older Windows kernels.
Windows is installed without ACPI, this way the CPU does not get IDLE