From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 8:20:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chi1.nucleusconsulting.com (chi1.nucleusconsulting.com [207.250.168.11]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0F3432F; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from labntserver1.nucleusconsulting.com by chi1.nucleusconsulting.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1461.56) id DSZAY4JA; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:19:04 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000209101950.0096aa30@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:19:50 -0600 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: VmWare Performance Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I've been playing around with the new WMWware(beta) port on 4.0 current using the -rawdisk option to load my win98(dual boot machine) as the guest operating system. I've created an alternate hardware profile, and everything seems to be detected and running fine within win98, but guest operating system runs about the speed of win98 running on a 386 machine(menus seem to pop up quickly, but are really slow when they have to access disk, or load new info). I've increased the RAM available to 72, and installed the rtc kld(?) but performance still sucks. Current my system is a thinkpad 600, PII 300, 128 Ram with 4.0 current (2/1/2000?). Has anyone else used the rawdisk option? Or booted an existing OS, or installed new versions of win98/95 in virtual partitions? And if so whats the performance like?.. I thinking it may have something to do with the raw partition read/write access, and FAT32??... p.s. Can you CC me any responds, I'm only on questions...THanks! Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message