While a very interesting read, I'm curious how much is applicable anymore since the paper is relatively dated. I ask from ignorance not to dismiss the paper.

The reason I ask is because my current line of work heavily involves supporting and troubleshooting VMware and HyperV infrastructures and I frequently do receive cases where we have to consider why the VMs on VMware struggle or have issues with quiescence; I thought this would be a good article to learn a bit about the underpinnings, but for most of the problems they describe near the bottom of the article, the linked VMware KB articles are no longer available - have many of these issues been improved upon and are no longer as relevant?

Thanks folks. It's good to know this is not directly relevant anymore. Is VT-x one main reason things are better?

I was actually looking at this from the perspective of implementing hardware simulation in software, unrelated directly to VMware. Essentially, I was grappling with the problem of how to do timekeeping in toy VMs. Looking at this gave me some insight into how to solve my problem (I think).

Wow, this brings back some memories. I remember vividly having real issues with VMWare + my Athlon 4400+, then the king of the jungle.

As far as I understand it, this is no longer an issue and hasn't been for some time.

A more updated link: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langu...

This is not applicable anymore but I do remember those days and am glad I don't have to add any elements to kernel line in grub.conf to every linux VM. Not fun.

That's 11 years old and as far as I know no longer relevant.