Re: Vmware and -current

1999-12-25 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 23 December 1999 at 21:29:08 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > 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 r

Re: Vmware and -current

1999-12-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > It is not out of the question to bring buffered disk access back, > but it will be an ioctl enabled function for disks, not a vnode > mode. Peter has suggested doing it with a layered device a'la vn(4). Actually that was me. To Unsubscribe

Re: Vmware and -current

1999-12-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas David Rivers writes : >> 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

Re: Vmware and -current

1999-12-24 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> 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

Vmware and -current

1999-12-23 Thread Julian Elischer
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. of course this is w98. FreeBSD 1.1