From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:56:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Coretemp ERROR: Can't get value of subfeature Message-Id: <20100527105608.276fc3dc@hyperion.delvare> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Hi Huang, On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:41:14 +0200, Dong Huang wrote: > Hello everyone, > > i am a newbie here, want to check the temperature of my motherboard with > lm_sensors, unfortunately i got error message as i run sensors. So I really > need your help, thanks in advance. > > (...) > *5. output of sensors-detect* > Shutting down sensors: > > done > # sensors-detect revision 5729 (2009-06-02 15:51:29 +0200) > # System: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform > # Board: Intel Corporation 440BX Desktop Reference Platform It makes no sense to run sensors or any _hardware_ monitoring application on a _virtual_ machine. Hardware monitoring should be done on the host system, not on the guests. > (...) > *3. The output of sensors: * > coretemp-isa-0000 > Adapter: ISA adapter > ERROR: Can't get value of subfeature temp1_input: Can't read > Core 0: +0.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) I presume that VMware simply doesn't allow guest drivers to access CPU MSR. Nothing we can do. -- Jean Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/wishlist.html _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors