Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:15:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> Cc: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel. Message-ID: <15078.52718.574546.451382@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <14827294737.20010425134900@binity.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104242301000.4422-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> <14827294737.20010425134900@binity.com>
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Walter Hop writes: > [in reply to vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET, 25-04-2001] > > > Interesting. What happens if it's like the reverse where one runs > > FreeBSD under vmware from Windows2000? Since 5-10% seems to be really > > slow. > > I always try out new applications in a virtual machine running FreeBSD > on my Windows workstation, it's lovely. I/O is painfully slow, but > in normal situations performance is >10%... (PII-350, 256MB ram) Note that the 5-10% I was talking about is just the tertiary bootloader (/boot/loader). I mentioned it because the original poster was primarily concerned about 'bootstones' -- in more normal situations (ie, once the kernel is loaded) I'd say performance is more like 40-80% of native. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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