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["Anders Norrbring" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anders Norrbring wrote:
> > > Anders Norrbring wrote:
> > > > Anyone with ideas on what makes 11.1 so extremely slow at boot and
> > > halt time when run as a VMware Server guest?
> > > > 11.0 was really fine, but 11.1 can take up to 6-7 minutes just to
> > > come to 'Starting udev'. Same goes for a halt, it takes up to 10
> > > minutes to halt the VM.
> > > >
> > > Hi Anders,
> > >
> > > Try to boot with options "hpet=disable clocksource=acpi_pm"
> > >
> > > This should help.
> >
> > Thank you!
> > That certainly did it.. Now I just have to read up on the kernel
> documentation to figure out WHY it worked.. ;-)
>
> In addition to the kernel documentation, there is an interesting
> white paper how VMware handles the time. Googling
> vmware_timekeeping.pdf will probably get you a link.
>
>       Joachim


Thanks!
I'll take a look at that paper any day soon.. ;-) Right now I'm buried in other 
issues... Like VMs going into "uninterruptable sleep".. *sigh*

Anders.

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