From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 18:49:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242DC16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asarian-host.net (mail.asarian-host.net [194.109.160.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DEC43D48 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:49:19 -0700 (PDT) SRS0=rWsBENuh=HS=asarian-host.net=admin@asarian-host.net) Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email accounts can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.asarian-host.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i3M1nH8P004300 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:49:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) From: Mark Received-SPF: pass (asarian-host.net: domain of admin@asarian-host.net designates sender IP as SASL permitted sender) Message-Id: <200404220149.I3M1NFMC004280@asarian-host.net> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 01:49:17 GMT X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net X-Trace: SG4pvcsL82p7a50EMBi01vnb1wHRpKNXjtAZs/uqO7W5RW0BDOLn+ZlJUlEv5GD2c2u+X4jZBRS+aBjnLRdKuQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers, otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: , References: <20040421215131.GF17648@asu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAQIcknTFqW1BleBN9AQG4gAf/SAq2M35yanaG3ayuMZ7pdUtoktxGGQoR Uhhjj0ZJhjj9X/0OgyMI+DiU1U0kUsfXeR0lDaUqozkBQk+AoA7B7QRbKlUUXzKh ZSSR9FrT3SoyuB5+4PKVKTFDRVSO1oS1Q9IEKMIQjqNyfoX82f8joPTzHn+ZFDpF d5lT+X6tjXCHJfOt7F70OHS4o/GB9CC4ENoNd3Zes5v/rR36tO8nS202qeXlq4N3 5414etqQrSe+dq7ObwPtvFQzRE/MIsoUckevgtRvttnRMxMRqVUiArQuf0Ft0xZB LnD3zynpHBOnItyAg96nmmXm3+RH53UQvCOxnLrEccHJ9klP2uMIbA== =hB3S Subject: Re: anyone using vmware to run freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 01:49:20 -0000 David Bear wrote: > i did a quick search of the web site and there was mention of using > vmware to launch other os's from bsd, but is anyone using some other > os to host vmware and then launch freebsd? I use Vmware (both Workstation 4.5 and GSX server 3.0), on Win XP, 2003 server, respectively, to run shadow versions of my real server (FreeBSD 4.9R). It runs extremely well. So well even, that I am even considering running it under Vmware permanently, so I can let Win XP/2003 use the SATA raid, whilst the Vmware box is blissfully unaware of this. :) I did some tests, recently; CPU is equally fast (surprisingly). Memory operations are about 3x as slow on the Vmware box, though. I guess this is where the extra paging comes in (because of the virtualization). All in all, though, Vmware runs flawlessly. I tried GSX server 2.5 first; it was, pardon my French, crappy (quite buggy). Workstation 4.5 is excellent code; and the new GSX server 3.0 is new code too, and works equally well. Mind you, these are just my personal experiences. Cheers! - Mark