[NTLUG:Discuss] RH9 and VMWARE

[Chris Cox]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> 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. 

I don't think it fixes the undetected NIC when going
dhcp though (not a hard fix... but of course, you're
doing the fixing and not RH.. which could lead to
future maintenance issues).