Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 16:48:01 +0100 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> Cc: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware 3.1.1 for Windows and FreeBSD 4.6-RC2 Message-ID: <200205291648.aa58472@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 May 2002 11:36:51 EDT." <20020529113651.A74576@unixdaemons.com>
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In message <20020529113651.A74576@unixdaemons.com>, Bosko Milekic writes:
> I don't know what's up, but I tried installing a -CURRENT snapshot via
> a virtual CD "containing" the snapshot iso and got this behavior (I've
> tried several times on my laptop):
On most hardware you need to disable the use of "cmpxchg" to get
-CURRENT to run in VMware at a non-zero speed:
Index: atomic.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /dump/FreeBSD-CVS/src/sys/i386/include/atomic.h,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.26 atomic.h
--- atomic.h 28 Feb 2002 06:17:05 -0000 1.26
+++ atomic.h 11 Mar 2002 17:43:37 -0000
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
* Returns 0 on failure, non-zero on success
*/
-#if defined(I386_CPU)
+#if defined(I386_CPU) || 1
static __inline int
atomic_cmpset_int(volatile u_int *dst, u_int exp, u_int src)
{
I haven't seen the need for this on -stable, but it might be
worth a try. We could do with a loader-tunable setting so that
you don't need to build a custom kernel for installation in
VMware.
Ian
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