On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Walter Hop writes:
> > [in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], 25-04-2001]
> >
> > > Interesting. What happens if it's like the reverse where one runs
> > > FreeBSD under vmware from Windows2000? Since 5-10% seems to be really
> > > slow.
> >
> > I always try out new applications in a virtual machine running FreeBSD
> > on my Windows workstation, it's lovely. I/O is painfully slow, but
> > in normal situations performance is >10%... (PII-350, 256MB ram)
>
> Note that the 5-10% I was talking about is just the tertiary
> bootloader (/boot/loader). I mentioned it because the original poster
> was primarily concerned about 'bootstones' -- in more normal
> situations (ie, once the kernel is loaded) I'd say performance is more
> like 40-80% of native.
Hmmm, 80% sounds more acceptable. 40% would seem weird since
it'll be running the VM on like a 386 or something =)
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