[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 VMI support
Ruslan Sivak
russ at vshift.com
Fri Jul 11 00:24:28 UTC 2008
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 at 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
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