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Questions tagged [hal]

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Disk2VHD and Hyper-V

I want to virtualize a physical machine and I used Disk2Vhd to convert the Hard drive to a .vhd file. My issue is that when I attach this vhd in Hyper-V, and try to install "Integration Services", I get the message "HAL Upgrade Required", and…
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How to determine hardware abstraction layer in Windows Server 2008

I'm investigating a bug which only seems to be reproducable on some single processor machines. I want to know if this is related to the HAL. Prior to Server 2008, it was possible to select a specific HAL .dll using device manager as described here -…
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KVM Slow performance on XP Guest

The system is very slow to do anything, even browse a local folder, and CPU sits at 100% frequently. Guest is XP 32 bit. Host is Scientific Linux 6.2, Libvirt 0.10, Guest XP OS shows ACPI Multiprocessor HAL and a virtIO driver for NIC and SCSI.…
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How to findout if haldaemon is being used or udev in RHEL server?

I am quite confused if hal is really in use or just udev. What I understood: In general, HAL is an abstraction layer that allows an operating system to interact with a hardware device. And daemon hald is different from HAL. It is a service which…
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How can I determine if the Windows Server I'm looking at is using a mutliprocessor capable HAL?

I have a Windows Server 2012 VM that has only been assigned a single core; I'd like to know if the HAL for the machine is multi-core capable before requesting more cores be added to the VM. Is there some WMIC command, regedit value, or some other…
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Are D-Bus and Hal needed for a virtual server?

I have a Xen-based Centos 5.5 virtual machine running as a server - Apache, OpenSSH, MySQL, Tomcat, Nagios and ISC Bind. It is currently running both d-bus and hal-daemon. Are these needed or can I safely turn them off?
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