Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:03:24 +0900 From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: FYI: VMware Workstation, ACPI support for FreeBSD guest Message-ID: <20031128210324W.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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Just FYI for people who run FreeBSD on VMware 4: Several days before, VMware releases new beta version of VMware Workstation 4 (actually 4.1 beta), bulid-6568, to alpha testers including myself. I've fetched Windows host version, runs on my PC, start my FreeBSD 5-current guest, and found that finally VMware supports ACPI for FreeBSD guest machine (actually, VMware 4.0.5 supports ACPI, but if you setup VM as FreeBSD guest, ACPI is disabled). It works as it should be; you can find that psm0 and other expected devices are connected to acpi0 bus, acpi_cpu reports that throttling is enabled, etc. Moreover, it seems that long standing "random/slower/ faster clock-time bug" is resolved! If you have interested into VMware's ACPI implementation, here you are: http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/~matusita/VMware-4/dmesg.boot http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/~matusita/VMware-4/vmware.asl http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/~matusita/VMware-4/vmware.dsdt *** Please note that this is about FreeBSD as VMware's *guest* OS, not as *host* OS. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita
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