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