Interrupt flood in win2k

[UlyssesOfEpirus]

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?

[UlyssesOfEpirus]

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:

[continuum]

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

[UlyssesOfEpirus]

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?

[continuum]

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

[UlyssesOfEpirus]

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

[UlyssesOfEpirus]

Is there a vmware network card that does not use hardware interrupts or can be configured not to?