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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:22:05 -1000 (HST)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104251120120.4422-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
In-Reply-To: <15078.52718.574546.451382@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> 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.

	Hmmm, 80% sounds more acceptable.  40% would seem weird since
it'll be running the VM on like a 386 or something =)


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