From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 23 13: 0:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC7337B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:00:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A80E43ED8 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 72636 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Jan 2003 21:00:14 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:00:14 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Lev Serebryakov Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2 In-Reply-To: <656395359.20030123230432@serebryakov.spb.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Brooks! > Thursday, January 23, 2003, 10:56:28 PM, you wrote: > > BD> From sys/i386/conf/NOTES: > BD> # CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG disables the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32 > BD> # machines. VmWare seems to emulate this instruction poorly, causing > BD> # the guest OS to run very slowly. Enabling this with a SMP kernel > BD> # will cause the kernel to be unusable. > BD> You need a kernel with this option or compiled with "cpu I386_CPU". > > Hmm... I need installer with special kernel... Is it possible without > building full release? Just install from a 4.x cd and then upgrade with installworld or create a single boot floppy with your own custom kernel. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message