VC showing high CPU load after P2V NT 4.0 Workstation

[AndyE]

Hello

I just finished converting a physical Windows NT 4.0 Workstation computer (SP6a) into ESX3.5i (120505) using the Enterprise Converter.

All went well so far, vmware tools are installed. In VC (2.5U3) however the VM is constantly at 100% CPU load. Taskmanager in the VM itself though

shows no load

Already uninstalled any old display drivers etc etc, but that didnt help at all, uninstalled, reinstalled vmtools.

Any ideas would be appreciated

Andy

[weinstein5]

What HAL are your running? Was the original machine multiprocessor and are you no running with a single vcpu?

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[azn2kew]

Also make sure to remove unnecessary devices to clean up all the junks. P2V is straight but having HAL differences can cause tremendous performance issue and you can take a look at best practices on P2V using www.vmware-land.com/converter.html for details.

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Regards,

Stefan Nguyen

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

[AndyE]

The tip with the hal was a good one. Obviously i had replaced the original hal.dll with the softex hal.dll to overcome

the "cant shutdown a nt computer". So going back to the original hal.dll helped.

thanks a lot!

Andy