why does workstation 6.03 only see one processor?

[moskob]

Hi,

I recently reinstalled my host OS (2003 EE) and Workstation now only allows me to select 1 processor. My hardware is a Dell Precision 690 with a quad 2.66 quad xeon processor. It used to allow me to select two.

thanks

old man

[KevinG]

Was the VM power off?

Post the vmware.log file from the virtual machine

[moskob]

Hi,

Yes the power was off.

old man

[moskob]

Hi,

Attached is vmware.log.

Old Man

[continuum · Accepted solution]

Are you sure you installed 2k3 with a multiprocessor kernel ? Do you see more than one CPU in taskmanager ?

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[moskob]

Continium - thou art great. Can I upgrade the driver on the host without reinstalling the OS? How?

thanks,

Old Man

[continuum]

Your log file didn't had entries like

Jun 18 21:20:54.750: vmx| CPUID[1] level ...

which should be there if the hosts uses a multiprocessor kernel.

Look at devicemanager > computer

Which type is listed there ?

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[moskob]

Hi,

The following three drivers are listed under Computer--

Standard PC:

hal.dll

ntkrlnpa.exe

ntoskrnl.exe

thanks,

Old Man

[moskob]

If I click on the helpful answer icon will that deselect the correct answer credit?

Old Man

[continuum]

If I click on the helpful answer icon will that deselect the correct answer credit?

Don't know and don't care - I don't fish for points - just for interesting problems

Changing hal is possible - you should change to "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" - but you use DELL - which is always different.

The fact that you install "standard pc" either means that you

- have a strangely tweaked install CD

- manually selected that HAL at F5 time of installation

- or have something set in BIOS that disables ACPI

If first - then you may not even have that ACPI kernel in your install files ???

If the last is the case - it would probably give better results to do a fresh install after changing BIOS accordingly..

If you just setup the host recently I would recommend a fresh install anyway

Ulli

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[moskob]

When I reinstalled the OS I saved the original boot drive image. I see several ACPI files acpi.sys, and acpiex.sys, halacpi.dll files (among others). Should I google each file to see which of these I need? Is there a more effective method? As you can see I am an application person.

thanks

Old Man

[continuum]

Don't change files manually - a dirty way would be to "update driver" driver from device manager and then pick ACPI multiprocessor PC

- but if I remember right there is a more recommended way - it was posted in Converter forum if I remember right

... wait a minute

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[continuum]

found a good link -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810903

Title maybe misguiding - but solution is the same procedure

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