VMware with 2.6 kernels
Jason Edgecombe
jedgecombe at carolina.rr.com
Fri Feb 17 02:01:14 UTC 2006
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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