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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a vmware guist - boots like molasses
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I found it slow when using the real disk but much faster if usung a
virtual disk..
I also limited the virtual machine to 32 MB which also made it
faster....
but that was a long time ago...

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Nick Sayer wrote:

> I have FreeBSD installed as a VMware guest on a Windows 2000 machine.
> 
> Up until the point where it actually boots the kernel, it is as slow as
> molasses. It takes upwards of 15 minutes to get to the point where it
> spits out the kernel Copyright message. Then it takes about 15 seconds to
> complete the entire rest of the boot procedure (up to the login promtp).
> I see another message in the archives where someone speculates that this
> is Athlon related, but this machine is a Dell C810 laptop. Everything
> about the boot environment is horribly slow. If I interrupt the loader and
> start typing, the key repeat latency is 45 seconds or so.
> Booting from CD is fast enough, however (unless I interrupt the loader and
> try typing anything). Lately I have been booting the CD and using 'boot
> -a' to tell it to find the filesystem on the hard disk. Of course, once
> the kernel is loaded, everything is fine.
> This is VMware workstation 3.0 on a Windows 2000 machine. The guest is
> 4.6-RELEASE.
> Has anyone gotten this working any better than this?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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