Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Jacob Broido
If you run vm on a host with cpu that has frequency scaling( Intel Speedstep,AMD PowerNow, AMD Cool'n'Quiet), then you're affected by the following: http://kb.vmware.com/vmtnkb/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1227&sliceId=SAL_Public As to your point regarding desktop cpu's also aff

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jacob Broido wrote: > Are you using Vmware on Intel based laptop? I read the relevant passage. I (VMWare workstation hosted on Linux) am running it on a laptop with an Intel chip, but the other people (VMWare Server hosted on Windows XP) run it on a desktop. The problem happens both here and there.

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Jacob Broido
Are you using Vmware on Intel based laptop? On 1/20/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jacob Broido wrote: > Hi, > The reason you experience slowdown in Vmware 6 (beta) as compared to > Vmware 5.x is because as it names suggest - a beta. > > VMware 6 has extra debugging&tracing ca

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jacob Broido wrote: > Hi, > The reason you experience slowdown in Vmware 6 (beta) as compared to > Vmware 5.x is because as it names suggest - a beta. > > VMware 6 has extra debugging&tracing capabilities and features > included into it, and these cannot be disabled in beta release. > Actually th

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Jacob Broido
Hi, The reason you experience slowdown in Vmware 6 (beta) as compared to Vmware 5.x is because as it names suggest - a beta. VMware 6 has extra debugging&tracing capabilities and features included into it, and these cannot be disabled in beta release. Actually the software tells you this when y

RE: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-19 Thread Oded Arbel
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:42 +0200, Nati CT wrote: > VM6 is designed to use Intel's VT or AMD-V (which P4 doesn't have). > I think that's why you suffer from bad performance. So, if I want to get any decent performance with VMWare on a CPU with no hardware virtualization, I should use 5 and not 6 ?

RE: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-19 Thread Nati CT
VM6 is designed to use Intel's VT or AMD-V (which P4 doesn't have). I think that's why you suffer from bad performance. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hetz Ben Hamo Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:35 PM To: Linux-IL Subject: My VMWare 6