RE: [Xen-users] Windows 2000 server VM on Xen open source CPU hog?

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >
> > I had a look at GPLPV but quickly realised Windows 2000 wasn't
supported...
> 
> James, if I remember correctly, you mentioned something about newer
> Xen version or Intel CPUs emulating the TPR register.
> Would upgrading to (say) Xen 3.4 help reduce CPU load on vanilla
> Win2000 under Xen?
> 

I'm not sure exactly where that support got to and how it compares to
the no-tpr optimisations that Microsoft made in 2003sp2.

It wouldn't peg the cpu's at 200% though - I suspect the problem lies
elsewhere, although the tpr issue may be adding to it.

James

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