nate wrote:
Ruslan Sivak wrote:
I'm using VMWare Server 2 RC1 to on top of CentOS 5.2 x86_64 running a CentOS 5.2 i386 guest. I have enabled VMI in VMware, so I guess it won't let me install if VMI wasn't available in the kernel? How do I know whether VMI is supported/enabled and what performance benefits can I expect from it? I'm still not getting full hard drive speeds (only getting about 1/3 when using hdparm -t ).
I don't believe it is supported in CentOS 5.x. I am using Fedora Core 8 for VMI support.
[root@dc1-ntp001:~]# dmesg | grep -i vmi VMI: Found VMware, Inc. Hypervisor OPROM, API version 3.0, ROM version 1.0 vmi: registering clock event vmi-timer. mult=7809995 shift=22 Booting paravirtualized kernel on vmi vmi: registering clock source khz=1862048 Time: vmi-timer clocksource has been installed.
I suspect it will be in RHEL/CentOS 6.x
nate
Does it just require a kernel recompile? Is there maybe one available somewhere?
Would it give me improved disk access speed?
Russ