On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote: > Following steps were taken to set up my CentOS VM guest (without > vmware-tools installed): > > 1. Kernel options added as: > divider=10 > clocksource=acpi_pm (snip) > Any missing pointers..? > > Thanks, > CS. I hope you have seen my earlier posts in this thread. If you are not running the latest kernel (-164), you want to give it a try because it has patches developed by VMWare engineers for RHEL kernels. If you are already running the -164 kernel, you should not be using the clocksource= option as explained in the upstream bugzilla I cited. Akemi