[NTLUG:Discuss] RH9 and VMWARE

[Daniel Hauck]

>I saw a couple of instances of VMWare and RH9.
>Just wanted to mention a perfromance warning...
>
>RH9 did something to the kernel ( someone
>mentioned this ) that really, really trashes performance
>of a linux RH9 guest. So... if you want to run a RH9 guest,
>you need to pass the nosysinfo setting to the kernel at
>boot time. With Grub just add nosysinfo to the startup
>line for your kernel image.
>
>jack
i would be interested to know a little more background on this.  What is 
running a RH9 guest?  What does that mean?  What did RedHat do to the kernel 
and what does the nosysinfo direct the kernel to do?

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