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