Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:12:02 -0800 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Cc: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware networking & sysmouse Message-ID: <3AAD65D2.6070605@quack.kfu.com> References: <200103112208.f2BM88L85365@gc0.generalconcepts.com> <20010311221123.B1541@tao.org.uk> <3AABF9DF.5E3C6E1F@babbleon.org> <3AAC3D1C.FB6FA0EB@babbleon.org> <20010312092107.A67643@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
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Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:06:04PM -0500, The Babbler wrote: > >> And I gather that nobody's figued out how to turn off /dev/rtc by >> default? I tried denying non-root users read permission, or granting >> them write permission, to /compat/linux/dev/rtc, but that didn't stop >> the 100% CPU problem. >> > I turned it off by deinstalling rtc with pkg_delete. You need the -f > (force removal) option because it is recorded to depend on vmware2. > After removal, I don't have 100% CPU usage anymore. It'll give you a > warning message on startup of the vmware guest that rtc isn't present, > but for the rest it works fine (NT4 and Win2000). > > Karel. This will make media operations in win9x guests somewhat unpleasant. If you run nothing but FreeBSD guests, then I guess it's a moot point. Does anyone know what the issue really is? Perhaps it's worth putting an option in the kernel to make it not do whatever causes it to chew CPU? People using vmware could use option VMWARE_GUEST or some such in guest machines' kernels to make it not do that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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