From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 31 9: 6:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tesla.distributel.net (nat.MTL.distributel.NET [66.38.181.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E757037B409 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 09:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmilekic@localhost) by tesla.distributel.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4VG5dD70441; Fri, 31 May 2002 12:05:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmilekic@unixdaemons.com) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:05:39 -0400 From: Bosko Milekic To: Nicolas Souchu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current as guest of VMWare2 Message-ID: <20020531120539.A70408@unixdaemons.com> References: <20020530234650.B3994@armor.fastether> <20020530182330.A88259@unixdaemons.com> <20020531155454.GA98523@leviathan.inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020531155454.GA98523@leviathan.inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:54AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:54AM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > I'm running windows XP and vmware 3.1.1 with a guest os of FreeBSD > 4.5 which I'm going to upgrade to -current. I couldn't find too much > info on this thread. Does anyone know if vmware3 is affected by this > problem when using a windows host os? > > -- > David W. Chapman Jr. > dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. > dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer As I mentionned several times now in this thread, I am running VMWare 3.1.1 with a host OS being Windows2000 and a guest OS, -CURRENT. I am doing this on my laptop so that I can "trick" -CURRENT into playing with my PCMCIA network card that is not supported but that works when used through VMWare due to VMWare emulating a LANCE type (lnc) card. Here are the issue I ran into with -CURRENT as guest, and what I've done to solve them so far: 1) Issue: -CURRENT installation boots, kernel boots, sysinstall starts, but newfs-ing on partitions is EXTREMELY slow. Solution: Don't use the VMware 'virtual disk' thing backed with a file on the host OS. Instead, create a separate partition for FreeBSD and install there. Disk access is quite a bit faster. 2) Issue: sysinstall now can newfs easily/quickly, it starts the install on / first, but eventually slows down to a crawl (the rate sinks to something ridiculous, like 0.5K/s. Solution: Haven't figured it out yet. My plan is to: (i) Re-install -CURRENT snap in the separate partition but not through VMWare (i.e. do it the "normal" way). (ii) Boot -CURRENT normally (iii) Rebuild kernel without cmpxchg instruction (cpu I386_CPU, or whatever the name of that option was). (iv) Boot host OS windows2000, start VMWare, and try booting the installed -CURRENT with the new cmpxchg-free kernel via VMWare. I hope this at least improves the speed situation. -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@unixdaemons.com bmilekic@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message