Re: [CentOS-virt] tick divider bugs

2008-05-03 Thread Allen Tsang
Also just to review, clocksource=acpi_pm should be used in conjunction with the tools.synctime = "true" flag in your vmx file. The combination of the two settings prevents time from going into the future from too many ticks, and synctime corrects slow clocks, which leads to a much, much better

Re: [CentOS-virt] tick divider bugs

2008-05-03 Thread Allen Tsang
clocksource=pit is confirmed not working in VMware ESX. You should be using clocksource=acpi_pm in addition to divider=10 to reduce idle load. Binding to a single CPU is hardly a fix. Always engineer *real* solutions, not poor workarounds! ;) Kai Schaetzl wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote on Sat,

Re: [CentOS-virt] Doubt about compatible hardware

2008-05-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 14:24:06 -0300: > There are any lists like Hardware Compatible List to Xen Most NICs that are compatible with CentOS will also be compatible with Xen. I doubt your problem really is the card by itself. I'd rather think it's a driver or the way

[CentOS-virt] Doubt about compatible hardware

2008-05-03 Thread Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro
Hello friends I was installed the yum group Virtualization to start tests about it, but when my machine was restarted, hung up in same time of start xend daemon .., I'm stoped the daemon with chkconfig and the OS work's fine (without xen), but when I started the daemon, my NIC/Switch led turn

Re: [CentOS-virt] tick divider bugs

2008-05-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Akemi Yagi wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 06:06:31 -0700: > I > tried it but it seems to have the same problem as before - when used > with clocksource=pit, it hangs on bootup. For the record, this can also happen in other situations with VMWare. For instance, I have seen that happen with a Suse 9.0 g

[CentOS-virt] tick divider bugs

2008-05-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
Hi all, If you are using the kernel divider= option in your vmware quest, you are probably aware of the bugs reported at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315471 Someone @redhat "confirmed" the fix is in the test kernel -92. I tried it but it seems to have the same problem as before