From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Joseph Cosby <jocosby@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 2.6.9 IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! with VMWare 4
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:58:59 -0500
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:29 -0700, Joseph Cosby wrote:
> Hi,
> Using VMWare 4 with a 2.6.9 kernel I get "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!"
> As suggested, the noapic option fixes the problem. This resulted after
> adding APIC support to my kernel. My problem is, I need APIC support to boot
> on a separate, non-VMWare machine, and I need to keep the kernel and boot
> params the same on both machines.
> Aside from disabling APIC support, and running with the noapic parameter,
> can anybody suggest how to get this running on the VMware machine?
Did you ask VMWare about it?
Lee