[syslinux] CPU usage while at syslinux boot prompt

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
>> I was wondering if this was known behaviour ? And if it is something that
>> we can fix ?
>
> I guess I might put a HLT in *as an option* (because people *will*
> complain that the serial port loses characters), but perhaps a better
> thing would be to not start the VM until you actually need it...

One problem for us is that the connected ISO images cannot be ejected 
(disconnected) like a physical system, otherwise they could reboot 
directly into the newly installed system like we would prefer.

That's a feature request for VMware...

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