Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:13:26 +0000 From: Darren Reed <darrenr@hub.freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Experiences with 7.0-CURRENT and vmware. Message-ID: <20070510111326.GA94093@hub.freebsd.org>
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I'm using FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT under vmware and there are a few issues. First, time. hint.hw.acpi.disabled="1" This appears to make _no_ difference to time keeping on FreeBSD 7 and nor does it seem to have any impact on ACPI being loaded. Do I need to recompile a new kernel without it or is there a new way to disable ACPI? I should add that FreeBSD 6, with the same setting, is no better and that I need to run ntpdate every 5-10 minutes via crontab in order to keep good time (timekeeping is *really* bad.) In one instance, i was watching "zpool iostat 1" and it appeared like the rows were muching up at a rate of 2 a second for a minute or so. How do I disable TSC timekeeping? (NetBSD has this disabled by default in their kernels.) Or is there somethign else I must do? Second, networking. Prior to FreeBSD-7, the driver to use inside vmware workstation was lnc. It has worked and contiues to work great. No problemo. FreeBSD-7 uses the "em" driver. To put it simply, it sucks in comparison. When things really get bad I start seeing "em0: watchdog timeout" messages on the console. I looked and I don't see a lnc driver anywhere. Is there another alternative (le?) driver that I can use in place of em, if so, how? Apart from these two issues (which are very central ones :-(), I'm using FreeBSD in a 64bit vmware workstation environment quick successfully and ZFS is quite happy with all the kva :-) ZFS and zpools are working just as I expect, even if a bit slower due to vmware but I'm not cranking out benchmarks here. Oh, and how do I fix ssh/rsh to do passwordless sessions? I'm trying to setup cron jobs to automate various tasks but there's this small hurdle called a password prompt that I can't seem to get rid of :-/ Cheers, Darren
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