From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 24 13: 5:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE4937B42C for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f3OK5ks13732 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:05:46 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel. Message-ID: <20010424130546.V1790@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So I've got this really elite machinery here to test on, problem is that booting takes about 2 minutes each time I make a bad kernel, soooo... Anyone using anything like vmware in order to have a rapid reboot/test cycle for low level FreeBSD kernel coding? How fast is it to restart the vmware environent and do I stand a chance in hell of getting it working on FreeBSD-current? thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message