VMware Cloud Community
lem9
Contributor
Contributor

False CPU alarms on Windows XP guests having VMware tools

Hi,

after upgrading ESXi 4.1.0 to build 582267, all Windows XP guests on which VMware tools is up to date, exhibit weird performance info (and the CPU alarms are triggered).

When I connect the vSphere client to the vCenter server, these guests are shown as taking 100% CPU.  When connecting the client directly to the ESXi host, the same guest supposedly takes 75% CPU.

To compare, I updated VMware tools on a guest running Windows Server 2003 and all is fine.

0 Kudos
0 Replies