VMWare 7.1 uses CPU 50%/2 core with VirtualKD

[Anonymous]

I take the plunge to upgrade to new VMWare Workstation 7.1 today. I find a new problem with VirtualKD 2.3.
When I break into windbg, my host vmware-vmx.exe uses CPU 50%. I assign two cores to my guest Win7 32 VM, which means one of the CPU is spinning. When the guest is running, then host CPU is idle.
I have another VMWare 7.0.1 host and I don’t see this problem. Can somebody confirm it?

My setup:
host: Win7 x64, VirtualDDK 1.5
guest: Win7 32, VirtualKD 2.3
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*VirtualKD patcher DLL successfully loaded. Patching the GuestRPC mechanism…*
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Searching patch database for information about current executable…
Using RPC dispatcher table at 0x140727638 (92 entries)
Waiting for RPC table to be initialized by VMWare…
RPC table initialized. Patching it…
Successfully patched entry #2
VMWare reset monitor activated…

[Anonymous]

I noticed the same thing. I also noticed the debugger seems more responsive.

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