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List:       fedora-legacy-list
Subject:    Re: VMware with 2.6 kernels
From:       Jason Edgecombe <jedgecombe () carolina ! rr ! com>
Date:       2006-02-17 2:01:14
Message-ID: 43F52E6A.2060708 () carolina ! rr ! com
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Donald Maner wrote:
> With the discussion of using VMware to help with the QA process, I 
> felt I should speak up and add my experience over the past week 
> getting a fc2 and fc3 vm going.
>  
> The biggest problem I came across was that I had to recompile the fc2 
> and fc3 kernels to reduce the HZ setting in include/asm-i386/params.h 
> from 1000 to 100.  At 1000, the VMs were too slow to do any real 
> work.  The vmware discussion forums were great in pointing out that 
> was the problem with the slowness.  I'm running my VMs on ESX Server 
> 2.5.2, so I don't know if the latest Server beta or VMWare workstation 
> 5.5 are any better.  But someone does put out pre-made VMWare images 
> to help with QA, those images probably need a 100 HZ kernel in them.
>  
Hi there,

1. I can confirm this experience.
2. fc4 changes the HZ setting back to 100
3. Vmware 5 is supposed to fix the problem.

Jason

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