A Windows 2000 VM may perform badly and consume high CPU

Just had a couple of issues where a Windows 2000 VM was apparently slow and consumed >80% CPU.

They had in common that they have been converted (P2V) from real hardware with multiple processors.

Now, in Hyper-V, they run with the one supported processor, but still with Multiprocessor HAL and Kernel.

After changing that to ACPI-Uniprocessor-PC, the VMs performed as expected.

To change HAL and Kernel, use Device-Manager, Computer, Update Driver, and select ACPI-Uniprocessor instead of ACPI-Multiprocessor.

 

(Kudos to André Roos)

 

Cheers

Robert