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On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: |
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> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:27:01 +0300, Alan McKinnon |
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> <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> > .... |
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> >> Does the host CPU make a difference? I thought it was all |
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> >> emulated? I tried to recompile the kernel with the generic '386 |
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> >> CPU settings and removed all power mgmt etc, and the same issue |
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> >> happens. |
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> > The host CPU shouldn't make a difference as a VMWare .vmx is |
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> > supposed to work the same on all hosts. However, the VMWare version |
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> > in use on your friend's machine might be broken on AMD, or he has |
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> > done something dumb. |
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> No, it does make difference. The guest OS uses the same CPU as the |
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> host, with the exception of the number of available cores. If there |
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> are 2 or more cores on the host, including virtual ones through |
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> multithreading, the guest may use 1 or 2 cores. If the host has only |
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> one core, the guest must be configured to use only one. |
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Ah, this does make sense. |
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Daevid, you say you use a P4,a nd your friend is AMD. Does he perhaps |
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have an AMD64 or AMD dual core machine? |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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