Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2012-12-08 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
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

Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2012-12-08 Thread SilverTip257
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Zoltan Frombach zol...@frombach.comwrote: 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

Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2012-12-08 Thread Steve Thompson
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 idle