Re: [9fans] vmware installation problems

["Rodolfo (kix)" <kix@kix.es>]

Is an strange problem ... problem with interrupts?

Try to disable some hardware stuff, like the CD-ROM, USB, soundcard, etc.

This problem is only with plan9?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM, roger peppe<rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> well, now i've got another problem...
> i'm gettting strange time behaviour in the virtual machine.
> (as before, this is under VMWare 2.0.5, latest plan 9 ISO)
>
> time goes much faster than it should,
> and the VM hangs up for approx 7 seconds
> every 40 seconds or so. after a hangup, system
> time proceeds even faster for a little while,
> before settling down again.
>
> i've attached a pdf graph of the behaviour
> (times in seconds, real time on the x-axis, system time on
> the y-axis, data points generated by looping alternating
> reading /dev/time and sleep(1000)). the
> blank spots in the graph are where the system
> was hung up unresponsive, not even the mouse cursor
> moves.
>
> anyone got any idea what might be going on here?
>



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