Hello, and thanks for your reply
I am seeing vSphere report the MHz in the Hosts and VMs section under the VM--> Configure page - you know, where it has the 'play' button and the link to open Workstation to view the console.
I am actually working on using this as a desktop with GPU passthrough. I had a Nvidia 740 GT working with passthrough for a while but it appears to have stopped working, but that's for another thread.
Yes, vmware tools is installed because I am using paravirtualized drivers for SCSI and NIC. I load the drivers for pvscsi during installation and then install vmware tools 64-bit immediately on first boot for vmxnet3.
Just noticed when I was making the VM that it is ungodly slow. Had never noticed a MHz report in vSphere before, but there it was. I know resource utilization is extremely low as per esxtop and meters in vSphere - but a 4-core VM should be able to operate Windows in a plenty snappy way.
So far now I've tried turning off P and C states in the BIOS and it appears to subjectively made things a little faster. The processor has a base freq of 2.0GHz but it's 2.7GHz turbo so I'd think it'd be capable of being at least mildly peppy.
I am going to see if I can find a reference for common BIOS settings to enable for ESXi hosts. It's my first E5 motherboard, there's a lot of additional settings I don't recognize having only worked with E3s.
Another thread I was reading was talking about virtual machine monitor mode, which turned up this KB article: VMware Knowledge Base
However, I don't see that setting in my version of vSphere. I tried setting
monitor.virtual_exec = hardware
monitor.virtual_mmu = hardware
manually in the VMX file (through edit -> vm options -> advanced settings). But I do not see any difference from that.
Any thoughts? Thanks :smileyhappy: