From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 24 1:20:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425F9151DD for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 01:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA25825; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:20:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA36290; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:20:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.3/8.6.9) id EAA76863; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:20:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:20:27 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199912240920.EAA76863@lakes.dignus.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Vmware and -current In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > seems to work fine, > except that now we don't have block devices any more > so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. > > I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger > on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices. Hmmm.... I wonder what it would take to bring them (block devices) back... probably out of the question at this point... > > of course this is w98. > FreeBSD 1.1.5 and freebsd 3.3 seem run as well but I've only run them off > virtual disks (which therefore have buffering) > - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message