From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Mar 30 17:11:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.sftw.com (guardian.sftw.com [209.157.37.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF1C537B520 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:11:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from yoda.sftw.com (yoda.sftw.com [209.157.37.211]) by guardian.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA83867 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:11:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from sftw.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yoda.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00564 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Message-ID: <38E3FB31.3DD4D170@sftw.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:11:13 -0800 From: Nick Sayer Reply-To: nsayer@kfu.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: NT vs WIN98 as vmware guest Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org After some time with both, it is begining to dawn on me that the difference between success and frequent hangs with vmware under FreeBSD is the difference between win98 and NT4. On the same machine I have two guests. One is now an NT4 NTFS partition running in a plain disk. The other is win98 running in a virtual disk. The win98 setup is reasonably stable. The NT4 setup will lock FreeBSD solid usually in anywhere from minutes to a couple hours (this is with RELENG_4 as of today). Has anyone else seen horrible, dramatic problems with NT4 as a guest under a FreeBSD host using vmware v2? I would sort of prefer NT, since the few times a difference between the two matters, having NT is preferable. Oh, and it's NT4 workstation, SP 6a. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message