From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 25 6:16: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A15137B43F for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:16:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17924; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:15:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f3PDFQO36166; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:15:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15078.52718.574546.451382@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:15:26 -0400 (EDT) To: Walter Hop Cc: Vincent Poy , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel. In-Reply-To: <14827294737.20010425134900@binity.com> References: <14827294737.20010425134900@binity.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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