Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:48:20 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: "Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC" <lavalist@stargate.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be? Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0009131044380.1208-100000@burn> In-Reply-To: <39BE38FC.41C67EA6@elischer.org>
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You're running vmware sucsessfully in --current? I sync'd up the last time I was in the office (last...Friday?) and the linux emulation package refused to build in --current; complaining about an incopatible kernel module. In fact, i had to comment out the linux proc file system (from the linux emul package in 4.1-release) in the fstab to get into multi-user mode. I'll sync again tonight, poke around some more. --Brian On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > > be? > > > > I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the > > following disk controller / disk > > > > atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on pci0 > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > > ad0: 17301MB <FUJITSU MHJ2181AT> [35152/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > > > > This is -current from about three weeks ago. It works, but it's a bit slow. > > Applications themselves run at a reasonable speed, but every now and then > > (can be as frequent as 10-15 seconds) > > use only virtual disks and see if it still happens. > I found (on vmware 1) that using the raw disks was a recipe for > poor performance. Since we don't have block devices any more, > we are screwed in this regard. Virtual disks (files) are however > buffered and so can sometimes work faster. > > > > -- > __--_|\ Julian Elischer > / \ julian@elischer.org > ( OZ ) World tour 2000 > ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth > v > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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