From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 25 14:22:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C10A37B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA61005; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:22:05 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:22:05 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Walter Hop , Subject: Re: Re[2]: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel. In-Reply-To: <15078.52718.574546.451382@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 =) Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message