vmware server 64 bit on ubuntu 9.10 64 bit with P2V windows 2003 SBS poor network speed
- by RobertHC
configuration is
ubuntu 2.6.31-21 64 bit
vmware 2.0.2 64 bit last release
hardware is core 2 quad with 8GB ram
guest is win 2003 server SBS 32 bit
Dear friends,
we have a converted physical to virtual windows sbs 2003, converted with last converter available nowadays http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ vCenter converter.
Running the P2V 2K3 SBS on vmware server, it does boot fine, but we do note an abnormal CPU activity and a poor lan speed.
As attempts we did what follow.
We removed all unneeded peripherals, we removed one NIC (phisycal server was 2 nics), we changed the vmx to ged the nic recognized as intel instead than amd, we removed 1 cpu (physical was 2 cpu), we removed anything was reported as failed driver from system events monitor.
Nothing to do, no way and funny results.
Let's read some tests results. All are made with the same file copied in different source folders.
Copying from client side (both directions copy, to/from server) results are i.e. 10 seconds, copying the same files from server side (again from and to server) results are different... from client to server, speed is round about (bit more) 10 seconds, but from server to client direction is slower: double the time.
Beeing very fast and launching a simultaneous copy "from server to client"+"from client to server", this made from the server side, results in a stuck traffic... 45 seconds to do the copy.
vmware tools are installed and e1000 driver has been updated. With one processor CPU activity is still going up and down but much less than with two.
Because of test, we installed win 2k8 STD 64 bit. We repeated all the above tests with exactly the same file result is just one: always 5 seconds (this matches the lan speed)
Any idea about this issue is welcome and thank you if any.
Kind regards
R.
