From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Feb 10 13:28:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9012B4521 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:28:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA54670; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:27:59 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <38A301E7.AFAD78D3@sftw.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20000209101950.0096aa30@midwest.net> <20000209192034.I39387@florence.pavilion.net> <38A301E7.AFAD78D3@sftw.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:28:14 -0500 To: nsayer@kfu.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: VmWare Performance Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 6:22 PM +0000 2/10/00, Nick Sayer wrote: >I have tried both NT Workstation and win98 on real partitions and win98 on a >virtual partition. Unfortunately, a direct comparison between win98 real and >win98 virtual is not meaningful, because the former is a PII-233 laptop, and >the later is a K7-600 desktop machine. But that being said, the PII is much, >much slower than the other machine. > >NT Workstation running on a raw partition appears to be comperable to it >running on the same machine natively, however. That leads me to believe >that this may be a phenomenon limited to win98. For what it's worth, a friend of mine is running VMware under linux, and he has mentioned that Win2000 has much better performance than Win98. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message