VMware and AMD X2s/Opty's

[Haltech]

Ok, i awoke this morning and found that only 2 of my DIMES machines were actually running off this X2.. It really pissed me off too as i had 20 clients going.

Turns out, that VMware cant use multiprocessors properly. Causes a speed problem within each processor, although they are clocked the same.. Instant crashes..

So, what ive done is decided to tell you how to keep yourself from going through the pain that ive been going through the last 6 hours to get it resolved.

The first thing i did was upgrade to VM v5.5. This allows the latest fixes and the ability to clone this one install ive worked so hard to get running.

First things first.. The NUMA.. this thing is a pain in the ass. So. you need to goto the following to find it...

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Workstation

Theres a config file there.. Locate it and open it.

Add these lines...

host.TSC.noForceSync = TRUE
processor0.use = FALSE
processor1.use =TRUE

Now save it. Youre done there...

Now, since we will be cloning the first OS install.. goto your My Virtual Machines directory and locate your OS...

Open the VMX file and add ...

processor0.use = FALSE
processor1.use =TRUE

Those two lines to it.. close it and save it.

You will have to make sure you are not using AMD Cool & Quiet.

The last thing you need to do is open VM Ware and goto Edit Virtual Machine.. You will notice it uses a SCSI drive.. Goto add hardware and add an IDE drive.. After you have done that... REMOVE the SCSI drive.

That will get your X2 setup going.. I hope that helps anyone who has had issues with it..

[Haltech]

Ok, i did away with the IDE shizzle and went back to scsi.. I made the 1.5 gig partition way to small, so i opened it up to 2.2 and on scsi, which made a huge difference. I chopped my Win2k OS down reallly small now.. So 48mb of ram works awesome.

Im able to run 27 clients on this VM with 2 gigs on my workstation rig.. That means i can hit 32 on the dedicated rig once the new ram arrives for it. :toast:

[[XC] moddolicous]

Your an animal haltech. We gonna see 200k+ daily from you? Your probably around 150k daily now, so with more vm's 200k could happen. Congrats on 1mil and probably passing me either at the end of today or beginning of tomorrow. Does that scsi thing only work on the x2 setups or every comp?

[Haltech]

Your an animal haltech. We gonna see 200k+ daily from you? Your probably around 150k daily now, so with more vm's 200k could happen. Congrats on 1mil and probably passing me either at the end of today or beginning of tomorrow. Does that scsi thing only work on the x2 setups or every comp?


I already passed you :toast: The SCSI is default, so you shouldnt have to change anything. After countless hours of getting it to work, i had read on the support forums over at VM that a person had to go IDE.. Well, it was just to damn slow using IDE.. So again, i think this is my 3rd time doing 25 installs, i stripped services out, removed a lot of hardware :banana::banana::banana::banana: i didnt need and went back to SCSI.. i have a 29mb win2k and 48 meg of ram on each. The numbers should be pretty good tomorrow.. As you can see, we out did AT today overall :)