After a couple of years on linux, briefly returned to a windows 2000 VM and this showed up in Process Explorer:
A flood of interrupts in the VM, taking 100% of cpu time. To rule out infection a fresh VM was tried, and after some browsing the same interrupt flood occurred.
Microsoft time-bomb in windows 2000 to force you to upgrade?
Bad vmware driver?
Here's the .vmx that causes this on a fresh VM with windows 2000 service pack 4 plus some updates.
.encoding = "windows-1253"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
memsize = "400"
guestOS = "win2000pro"
displayName = "win2k"
mks.enable3d = TRUE
svga.vramSize = 18874368
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"
scsi0:0.filename = "disk.vmdk"
scsi0:0.mode = "independent-nonpersistent"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:1.filename = "dataDisk\disk.vmdk"
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:2.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
scsi0:2.fileName = "data1.iso"
scsi0:2.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:2.autodetect = "TRUE"
scsi0:3.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
scsi0:3.fileName = "data2.iso"
scsi0:3.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:3.autodetect = "FALSE"
scsi0:4.filename = "swapDisk\disk.vmdk"
scsi0:4.mode = "independent-nonpersistent"
scsi0:4.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
sound.present = "TRUE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
###########################
automatically generated options:
just an idea ... add this to the vmx and see if that changes the behaviour
pciBridge1.present = "false"
pciBridge2.present = "false"
pciBridge3.present = "false"
pciBridge4.present = "false"
pciBridge5.present = "false"
pciBridge6.present = "false"
pciBridge7.present = "false"
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VMX-parameters- WS FAQ -[ MOAcd|http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html] - VMDK-Handbook
Done that. Interrupt flood still occurs, after a while. Maybe after half an hour.
I notice this in comodo firewall's log:
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/544/image2zt.png
Can an adsl router be infected, therefore infecting my windows VM's too?
Ignore my last post - I thought you were talking about Interrupts related to PCI-slots and so on ...
Looks like you talk about something very different 😉
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VMX-parameters- WS FAQ -[ MOAcd|http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html] - VMDK-Handbook
I am talking about what Process Explorer calls "Hardware Interrupts". You were probably in the right direction, here's Process Explorer:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Is there a vmware network card that does not use hardware interrupts or can be configured not to?