Strange VMWare behaviour

Hammett · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject: Strange VMWare behaviour

Hi there!

I experience some troubles with VMWare Workstation 6.

First of all, the specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
4GB RAM
nVidia GeForce 8800 320MB
VMWare Workstation 6.0
Guest OS: Windows XP Pro x64
Kernel 2.6.22

The problem is that when I select 2 processors under virtual machine config in VMWare, the guest OS is very slow and at some points, completely useless. The problem simply goes away if I only select one processor.

Moreover, when selected 2 processors, it seems VMWare is only using one.

Any help on that? Thanks in advance!
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Hammett · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

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agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

A shot in the dark, are you sure your system is properly configured for using both cores?

Does "cat /proc/cpuinfo" display two processors?

timeBandit · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject:

Is the guest OS in the virtual machine--not the host OS--SMP-capable and configured to use more than one processor?
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