Scott Reese wrote:
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Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Scott Reese wrote:
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Hi All,
I have run across something in vmware-server that has me buffaloed. It
installs fine, but when I attempt to install Win2K server as a guest OS
things go wrong in a fairly strange way. It's as if the guest OS loses
track of it's own ability to keep track of time. The install will hang
at odd places in the install such as in the middle of copying files to
the hard drive, and at the first reboot where the installer gives a
timed countdown to reboot. It will start the countdown but each second
that Win2K sees is more like a minute or so IRL. The install will then
hang for good during device detection.
Anyone seen anything like this before?
I'm using the 1.0.2 version of vmware server and have tried both Sid and
Etch as well as Ubuntu Edgy as host OS's. This is happening on a
Toshiba Tecra A4-S211 laptop. I've also installed Win2K just to see if
it will install on this machine, and it did so with no problems.
Greetings:
This is a well covered problem. You can find lots of possible fixes in
the Discussion Forums at www.vmware.com.
The two most common issues have to do with the kernel timing source and
the CPU's sleep states. The kernel timing (which is set during the
kernel compile) should usually be 1000Hz. The other common problem has
to do with the power saving settings of the processor.
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=378333񜗝
has some ways to fix the power saving issues. I think that current
kernels all have the timing source set to 1000Hz, so that likely isn't
your problem.
-Scott
Well, I've been there and searched a few times but didn't come up with
anything on my searches.
The link you posted is broken, think you could post a working link? I'd
appreciate it.
Sorry:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=378333
- -Scott
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Thanks, Scott.
The answer was there. I had already disabled cpu scaling in the bios
and made sure there were no daemons running along that line, but that
wasn't enough. The trick is to keep the cpu working at least a little
bit with the host. Once I did that everything worked great.
Funny that I've done several vmware installs already, half of them on
laptops, and hadn't run into this issue before.
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