Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

[Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC]

You're running vmware sucsessfully in --current?  I sync'd up the last
time I was in the office (last...Friday?) and the linux emulation package
refused to build in --current; complaining about an incopatible kernel
module.  In fact, i had to comment out the linux proc file system (from
the linux emul package in 4.1-release) in the fstab to get into multi-user
mode.

I'll sync again tonight, poke around some more.

--Brian

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Nik Clayton wrote:
> > 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to
> > be?
> > 
> > I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the
> > following disk controller / disk
> > 
> >     atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on 
>pci0
> >     ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> >     ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> >     ad0: 17301MB <FUJITSU MHJ2181AT> [35152/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
> > 
> > This is -current from about three weeks ago.  It works, but it's a bit slow.
> > Applications themselves run at a reasonable speed, but every now and then
> > (can be as frequent as 10-15 seconds)
> 
> use only virtual disks and see if it still happens.
> I found (on vmware 1) that using the raw disks was a recipe for
> poor performance. Since we don't have block devices any more,
> we are screwed in this regard. Virtual disks (files) are however
> buffered and so can sometimes work faster.
> 
> > 
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