I was just wondering if anyone else has run into this situation. Am I missing something very simple or does anyone know what else I can try?
I've reviewed the Vmware documents (KB 1290) and contacted HP support. They basically said that "We do not support IRQ issues" The MPS option in the BIOS is set to Full APIC.
I checked one of my DL380 G4's BIOS and found that all PCI devices were mapped to IRQ 5 in the BIOS. The results are below. I tried this setting on the DL380 G5 (all PCI devices set to IRQ 5) and the results did not change. In fact, no matter the setting I choose in the BIOS for the PCI IRQ mappings, it always appears the same:
DL380 G5:
\[root@vmprd05 root]# cat /proc/vmware/interrupts
Vector PCPU 0 PCPU 1 PCPU 2 PCPU 3
0x21: 2 0 0 0 COS irq 1 (ISA edge), , VMK vmnic2
0xdf: 7479752669 7493623270 7958440519 7647922508 VMK timer
0xe1: 6196629 4096554 9496068 5831886 VMK monitor
0xe9: 219337841 162697289 210642702 184009325 VMK resched
0xf1: 166437 477103 390170 448981 VMK tlb
0xf9: 23360290 0 0 0 VMK noop
0xfc: 0 0 0 0 VMK thermal
0xfd: 0 0 0 0 VMK lint1
0xfe: 0 0 0 0 VMK error
0xff: 0 0 0 0 VMK spurious[/code]