VMWarertc: lostsomeinterrupts

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Run VMWare On Debian Linux. When a virtual machine is started, the following information appears in the log:

Aug 21 12:56:11 dey kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 2048Hz. Aug 21 12:56:42 dey last message repeated 1528 timesAug 21 12:57:43 dey last message repeated 3050 timesAug 21 12:58:44 dey last message repeated 3050 times

VMWare seems a little allergic to checking the clock.

There should be a good way to fix this. VMWare Timekeeping Manual mentioned that for a client OS that does not require timekeeping

The following background:

You can prevent/dev/rtc from being used. This will generally cause clocks to run slow
In any virtual machines you have that need the additional interrupts, but that may be
Acceptable to you, depending on your application. To do so, add the following setting
Each virtual machine's. vmx configuration file, or add the setting globally to the host's
Configuration file (/etc/vmware/config ):

Host. useFastClock = FALSE

Add the line above to/etc/vmware/config, call/etc/init. d/vmware restart, and the information will disappear.

Update: It is pointed out that you can solve this problem by re-compiling the kernel and adding HPET_EMULATE_RTC support.