I installed Vmware Server on my Gentoo 2006.0 (AMD64) box using the Gentoo Wiki instructions. I am using it to run Windows XP in a VM. It works fine, but I noticed some weird things. One was that my sound was not recognized by VMware, but the other and weirder one was that my Athlon 64 X2 CPU was being recognized as being 2.85 GHz instead of the normal 2.2 GHz. (See this screenshot for details.) I have run VMware before on different Linux hosts and it has always reported the CPU speed correctly in the Windows VM.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what could cause that? Or could it just lead to funny "I overclocked <------this much --------> screenshots?
EDIT: I am running a big dual-monitor setup and the screenshot is 2880x1200. Photobucket downscaled it, but the gist of it is that /proc/cpuinfo and cpufreqd in Gentoo report the frequency as 2200 MHz while Windows in VMware thinks that one core is 2845 MHz and the other is 2954 MHz.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what could cause that? Or could it just lead to funny "I overclocked <------this much --------> screenshots?
EDIT: I am running a big dual-monitor setup and the screenshot is 2880x1200. Photobucket downscaled it, but the gist of it is that /proc/cpuinfo and cpufreqd in Gentoo report the frequency as 2200 MHz while Windows in VMware thinks that one core is 2845 MHz and the other is 2954 MHz.