Why cpuspeed or cpupower services does not run on the guest of virtual machine?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Even I start the cpuspeed service manually, but the status of the service remains 'stopped'. The environment is a guest host of Vmware.
  • Scaling governors are not available in Vmware.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux All
  • Guest of virtual machine(Vmware,RHEV,KVM and others)

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