Running 23869 beta on an HP DL385 with 2 dual core 275 Opterons @ 2200Mhz. I have the host running with cpuspeed off (if turned on, /proc/cpuinfo would sometimes show incorrect cpu speed -- or maybe it was showing the correct - 1800Mhz when throttled down.)
I have performed the following:
1) added to /etc/vmware/config on the host:
host.cpukHz = 2200000
host.noTSC = TRUE
ptsc.noTSC = TRUE
2) added to guest's grub.conf kernel option
clock=pmtmr
3) added to /vmware/linux_guest_in_question.vmx:
processors.NUMAnode = "auto"
Currently #1 & #2 are implemented. I have also disabled ntpd on the guest but think I may need to add that back in as I am not running vmware tools on the guest (no GUI).
Can anyone give me some further advice here? I am running out of things to change. The time clock on the host stays in sync with it's ntp server. So, I don't know if I want to start messing with the host too much... turning off noacpi acpi=off, notsc, etc. etc.