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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Running Xenomai in a virtual machine
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Johan Visser wrote:
>> VMware runs, but gives heavy CPU load ( about 38 % ) instead of 6-8 % on
>> a real system.
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> That's expected if your CPU actually lacks hardware virtualization.

An idle guest used to consume almost nothing on a vmware host. Only
MS-DOS needed a special TSR to have its idle mode not consume 100%. On
the other hand, the last time I used vmware was 5 years ago...

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                                          Gilles