Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:21:23 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r187332 - head/tools/regression/usr.bin/jot Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901251821u5aaec1afqc79f77c9423d2fe3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090125.173505.1608379186.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20090120012256.GB29741@dragon.NUXI.org> <20090119.191238.1389906774.imp@bsdimp.com> <20090125235013.GA25031@dragon.NUXI.org> <20090125.173505.1608379186.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:35 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > In message: <20090125235013.GA25031@dragon.NUXI.org> > "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:12:38PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > In message: <20090120012256.GB29741@dragon.NUXI.org> "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : > : On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:14:35PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > : > In message: <20090119165030.GA18409@dragon.NUXI.org> "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : > : > : Run VMware. Seriously. Or raise a serious discussion on developers@ > : > : > : about this and get conciseness that cross building on MacOS X and > : > : > : MS-Windows is a goal. > : > : > > : > : > I've tried this on my mac. It doesn't work very well at all, and it a > : > : > pita for file sharing. > : > : > : > : Sorry - I don't quite follow. What is "it"? > : > : [ reply snipped ] > : > : Ok, I thought you were saying running FreeBSD under VMware doesn't work > : very well. I know for a fact that is not the case. I also wasn't sure > : what you meant by "pita for file sharing" as NFS certainly works in > : FreeBSD on the VM. I know MS-Windows under VMware Workstation and MacOS > : X can share a common folder, but I've never looked at if VMware tools for > : FreeBSD has that functionality also. > > FreeBSD inside a VM on the mac is a bit of a pita to get all the file > sharing stuff right. the pita is on the mac side, for the most part, > but smbfs on FreeBSD is so slow that it isn't useful for anything but > the most trivial of file sharing. > > Requiring a VM to build freebsd on a foreign host is a good stop-gap, > but not a good long term plan. > > Warner Not just that -- the performance for buildworld, etc is horrid and when you put the clock to sleep it tends to muck up the VM quite a bit under freebsd so you have to go fudging around with a constantly skewing clock. I only use a VMware Fusion image because I don't want to run RELENG_7 on my boxes (I run 8-CURRENT instead). Cheers, -Garrett
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