From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Dec 19 8:44:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA5214F14 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 08:44:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: by gvr.gvr.org (Postfix, from userid 657) id 811ECA84F; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:44:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:44:14 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, Devin Butterfield Subject: Re: VMware: Questions... Message-ID: <19991219174414.A89114@gvr.gvr.org> References: <19991218204438.A706@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19991218204438.A706@jupiter.delta.ny.us>; from Vladimir N. Silyaev on Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:39PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:39PM -0500, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: > > 2. When running VMware I see many messages saying: "linux: syscall > > setresuid is obsoleted or not implemented (pid=255)" going to the > > console. > I think you were ran vmware not from root? The binary is setuid to root so that should not be a problem. > > > 3. Perhaps related to 2., I notice that windows seems to freeze for 2-3 > > seconds (with disk activity during this freeze and more messages like in > > 2. going to the console) every 3-4 minutes. > Probably 3. and 2. are non related. > > > Is this somehow related to > > VMware needing a /dev/rtc device? If so, is there any practical way to > > satisfy this need? > I don't know what exactly VMware want from a /dev/rtc. The RTC already used in > kernel, so it doesn't have any chance to port a linux code. I am seeing the same freezes. I am running NT4 on a virtual drive. From time to time, the NT in vmware freezes. The IDE light on the vmware screen is off, yet there is a tremendous amount of disk activity going on (as seen from iostat or systat -vmstat). I am seeing 100 transaction per second. There is no paging or swapping going on (as seen by FreeBSD), so I can only assume that something is happening inside the virtual drive. But it is NOT NT doing that because otherwise we'd see the IDE pseudo led on... Are there any people that run NT in vmware on a Linux box listening here? If so: do the see the same disk activity? -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message