From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: VMware and ACPI Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:32:15 +0200 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20030919203214.GA579@elf.ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jan Rychter Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Hmm... just wondering: what happened to the VMware/ACPI interaction > issues that some people were reporting here? > > There were some discussions and it seemed that ACPI idling the processor > while VMware really wanted to use it was the cuplrit. Any resulting > changes? > > I'm running 2.4.22-pre10 now and my WindowsXP inside VMware runs > horribly slow. It gets considerably better if I leave an USB device > plugged in (which causes ACPI to use C2 only and never go into C3), but > it still isn't full speed. What about something like nice -n 19 while1 ? -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf