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VM Guest Performance Ridiculously Slow...

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 04/22/2008
From: Ray Frangie
Message:

Hi All,

I'm running VS2005 R2 SP1 with 2 Guest Machines and the Guest's performance
is ridiculously slow...

The following are the details:

Host:

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
2 x Intel Xeon 3.2Ghz CPU's
8Gb RAM
2 x 147's 10K RPM RAID 1, and 2 x 36's 10K RPM RAID 1

Guests (x2):
Windows Server 2008 Standard
Assigned CPU: 1-processor 3.33Ghz Xeon MP
Assigned RAM: 1.5Gb
Assigned HDD: 1 x 25GB IDE Fixed Disk

System Properties on the Guest show the following for the CPU:

CPU: Intel Xeon CPU 3.2Ghz @ 22Mhz

22Mhz?????

I can tell you the performance is of around that speed

Has anyone seen this issue before? Can anyone shed any light on how to fix
this?

Your help in advance is appreciated

Cheers,
Ray.

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Re: VM Guest Performance Ridiculously Slow...

Sent: 04/22/2008
From: Paul Adare <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:16:02 -0700, Ray Frangie wrote:

Server 2008 is not a supported host or guest yet. You'll need to wait for
updated Additions which will include the performance enhancements for
Server 2008 as a guest.

--
Paul Adare
http://www.identit.ca
/Earth is 98% full... please delete anyone you can.

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> Has anyone seen this issue before? Can anyone shed any light on how to fix
> this?
>
> Your help in advance is appreciated

Re: VM Guest Performance Ridiculously Slow...

Sent: 04/22/2008
From: "Ryan Sokolowski [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

This is most likely a result of a lack of VM Additions in the Guest. You'll
have to wait for W2K8-compatible Additions...

--
Ryan Sokolowski
MVP - Clustering
MCSE, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP
"Ray Frangie" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Show quoted text

> Hi All,
>
> I'm running VS2005 R2 SP1 with 2 Guest Machines and the Guest's
> performance
> is ridiculously slow...
>
> The following are the details:
>
> Host:
>
> Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
> 2 x Intel Xeon 3.2Ghz CPU's
> 8Gb RAM
> 2 x 147's 10K RPM RAID 1, and 2 x 36's 10K RPM RAID 1
>
> Guests (x2):
> Windows Server 2008 Standard
> Assigned CPU: 1-processor 3.33Ghz Xeon MP
> Assigned RAM: 1.5Gb
> Assigned HDD: 1 x 25GB IDE Fixed Disk
>
>
> System Properties on the Guest show the following for the CPU:
>
> CPU: Intel Xeon CPU 3.2Ghz @ 22Mhz
>
> 22Mhz?????
>
> I can tell you the performance is of around that speed
>
> Has anyone seen this issue before? Can anyone shed any light on how to fix
> this?
>
> Your help in advance is appreciated
>
> Cheers,
> Ray.

Re: VM Guest Performance Ridiculously Slow...

Sent: 04/22/2008
From: Ray Frangie
Message:

I see...

Do we have an idea on when the updated VM Additions may be released?

The current one's install on 2008 with no issues...

Cheers,
Ray.

"Ryan Sokolowski [MVP]" wrote:

Show quoted text

> This is most likely a result of a lack of VM Additions in the Guest. You'll
> have to wait for W2K8-compatible Additions...
>
> --
> Ryan Sokolowski
> MVP - Clustering
> MCSE, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP
> "Ray Frangie" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm running VS2005 R2 SP1 with 2 Guest Machines and the Guest's
> > performance
> > is ridiculously slow...
> >
> > The following are the details:
> >
> > Host:
> >
> > Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
> > 2 x Intel Xeon 3.2Ghz CPU's
> > 8Gb RAM
> > 2 x 147's 10K RPM RAID 1, and 2 x 36's 10K RPM RAID 1
> >
> > Guests (x2):
> > Windows Server 2008 Standard
> > Assigned CPU: 1-processor 3.33Ghz Xeon MP
> > Assigned RAM: 1.5Gb
> > Assigned HDD: 1 x 25GB IDE Fixed Disk
> >
> >
> > System Properties on the Guest show the following for the CPU:
> >
> > CPU: Intel Xeon CPU 3.2Ghz @ 22Mhz
> >
> > 22Mhz?????
> >
> > I can tell you the performance is of around that speed
> >
> > Has anyone seen this issue before? Can anyone shed any light on how to fix
> > this?
> >
> > Your help in advance is appreciated
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ray.
>

Re: VM Guest Performance Ridiculously Slow...

Sent: 04/22/2008
From: Steve Jain <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:04:01 -0700, Ray Frangie
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

You could try the VMAs from VPC2007. They should be close, however,
IIRC there are some kernel differences between Vista and W2K8/Vista
SP1 so these might not be any different.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.

Show quoted text

>I see...
>
>Do we have an idea on when the updated VM Additions may be released?
>
>The current one's install on 2008 with no issues...
>
>
>Cheers,
>Ray.
>
>

Re: VM Guest Performance Ridiculously Slow...

Sent: 04/22/2008
From: Ray Frangie
Message:

Steve,

Thanks for the reply.

I've had to unfortunately scrap the whole VM Infrastructure for now and
stick to physical equipment until such time when the VM Additions for 2008
are out and functioning as they should be.

Cheers,
Ray.

"Steve Jain" wrote:

Show quoted text

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:04:01 -0700, Ray Frangie
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> >I see...
> >
> >Do we have an idea on when the updated VM Additions may be released?
> >
> >The current one's install on 2008 with no issues...
> >
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Ray.
> >
> >
>
> You could try the VMAs from VPC2007. They should be close, however,
> IIRC there are some kernel differences between Vista and W2K8/Vista
> SP1 so these might not be any different.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
> I do not work for Microsoft.
>

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