Hello, I encountered an odd issue with running VMWare .vmdk image inside KVM. I run KVM as follows qemu-kvm -hda ./guest.vmdk -m 4096 and guest OS (SLES11) boots fine, but reports zero CPU freq via /proc/cpuinfo (cpu MHz): $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.15.1 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 0.000 cache size : 4096 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 4 wp : yes flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm up rep_good nopl pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm bogomips : 2088.96 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: $ I tried to convert .vmdk to qcow2 image and also tried different –cpu=<MODEL> options, but I always get zero frequency in this guest. Another guest (Ubuntu in native qcow2 image) works fine and reports correct cpu frequency, so I only see this problem with this particular .vmdk image. I’m running QEMU emulator version 0.15.1 (kvm-0.15.1-0.17.3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard on SLES11-SP2 host (3.0 kernel + patches). This problem is critical for me because by guest runs a binary which relies on non-zero CPU freq in /proc/cpuinfo. Any ideas? Thanks! -- Sincerely yours, Dmitry V. Krivenok e-mail: krivenok.dmitry@xxxxxxxxx skype: krivenok_dmitry jabber: krivenok_dmitry@xxxxxxxxx icq: 242-526-443 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
