Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-29 Thread Makoto Matsushita
glenngombert> I could not even get 'Current' to boot at all under glenngombert> VMware 3.0 without applying the patch that was mentioned glenngombert> a couple weeks ago under Win2K... What goes wrong to you? Unable to boot with boot floppies? -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-29 Thread Makoto Matsushita
iedowse> ... but only if you spend most of your time running CPU benchmarks :-) That's right :-) iedowse> On slower CPUs (I was using a 400MHz PII), the interrupts can iedowse> soak up virtually all of the available processing capacity iedowse> without the patch. I suspect this effect is respon

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-28 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Makoto Matsushita writes: >I really know I'm doing a stupid thing, but here is benchmark results >of both "plain" and "patched" 5-current (as of Nov/26/2001). Patched >FreeBSD is about 10% faster than before. ... but only if you spend most of your time running CPU

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-28 Thread Glenn Gombert
I could not even get 'Current' to boot at all under VMware 3.0 without applying the patch that was mentioned a couple weeks ago under Win2K... -- Glenn Gombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (513) 587-2643 x2263 - voicemail/fax Makoto Matsushita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > iedowse> Some

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-28 Thread Glenn Gombert
I could not even get 'Currnet' to boot at all under VMware 3.0 without applying the patch that was mentioned a couple weeks ago under Win2K... -- Glenn Gombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (513) 587-2643 x2263 - voicemail/fax Makoto Matsushita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > iedowse> Some

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-28 Thread Makoto Matsushita
iedowse> Someone mentioned on a list somewhere that vmware takes forever to iedowse> emulate the cmpxchg instruction, and that using the I386_CPU version iedowse> of atomic_cmpset_int() helps a lot. I really know I'm doing a stupid thing, but here is benchmark results of both "plain" and "patche

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:35 AM -0800 11/15/01, John Baldwin wrote: >On 15-Nov-01 Glenn Gombert wrote: >> >> Thanks for the tip Ian ...this works great! I have applied this patch >> to my desktop system ...and the FreeBSD Current kernel with this patch >> applied boots right up now...anyone else running Current un

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 15-Nov-01 Glenn Gombert wrote: > > Thanks for the tip Ian ...this works great! I have applied this patch > to my desktop system ...and the FreeBSD Current kernel with this patch > applied boots right up now...anyone else running Current under FreeBSD > would fine it helpful to do as well

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-15 Thread Glenn Gombert
Thanks for the tip Ian ...this works great! I have applied this patch to my desktop system ...and the FreeBSD Current kernel with this patch applied boots right up now...anyone else running Current under FreeBSD would fine it helpful to do as well Glenn G. Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-13 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Watson writ es: >I've had -STABLE run fine, but of late have had a lot of trouble with >-current. Userland processes during the boot sequence seem to spend a lot >of time just spinning -- it's not clear to me what the cause is, and I >haven't had time to deb

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-13 Thread Glenn Gombert
I now have 4.3 running under VMware on my laptop and main desktop machine (Asus CVU4X-D) systemI am trying to recompile current on my desktop system now (Current hangs badly on my laptop)I will try and investigate the cause of this a little later tonight -- Glenn Gombert [EMAIL PR

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-13 Thread Robert Watson
I've had -STABLE run fine, but of late have had a lot of trouble with -current. Userland processes during the boot sequence seem to spend a lot of time just spinning -- it's not clear to me what the cause is, and I haven't had time to debug. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, Trust

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Koster, K.J.
[ Picking any one to reply to... ] > > I have been running -current under vmware 2.x up until about August.. > (it didn't stop working, but I vmware stopped running on -current > due to KSE changes (patches now available I believe)).. > > i.e I was running -current under -current > Thanks to a

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Julian Elischer
I have been running -current under vmware 2.x up until about August.. (it didn't stop working, but I vmware stopped running on -current due to KSE changes (patches now available I believe)).. i.e I was running -current under -current On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear Rohit, >

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Julian Elischer
oh yeah there was a period where the lnc driver caused a crash of vmware. leave it out and try again On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear Rohit, > > Thanks for the response and your suggestion. > > > > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault in vm86 mode > > > > The following change he

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Just out of curiousity, are there any people who actually have FreeBSD > running inside a vmware VM? Evidence from the mailing list archives seems to > suggest that it worked up to FreeBSD 3.2 and then stopped, never to work > again. Yep; 4-stable with

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Glenn Gombert
I am running VMware on my Dell 5000e LapTop using Win2k right now and 4.3 seems to work fineI 'hang' badly when trying to run 'Current' however ...and I am still trying to sort out why that is Glenn G. -- Glenn Gombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (513) 587-2643 x2263 - voicemail/fax -

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Makoto Matsushita
raff> Yes, I am running FreeBSD 4.3 in a win2k vmware will everything raff> working including the network (to outside world). No special raff> configurations were required other than the obvious. FreeBSD 5-current guest also works fine here (W2k host). I'm happy with ports/emulators/vmware-tool

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Lorenzo Iania
I am running FreeBSD 4.4 in a win2k vmware. Everything seems to work without any perticoular configurations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Michael Raff
Yes, I am running FreeBSD 4.3 in a win2k vmware will everything working including the network (to outside world). No special configurations were required other than the obvious. At 08:57 AM 11/12/2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: >Just out of curiousity, are there any people who actually have FreeBSD

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear Rohit, Thanks for the response and your suggestion. > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault in vm86 mode > > The following change helped me get rid of a similar panic. > > - device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 > + device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 > When I look at the ke