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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:08:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2
Message-ID:  <20030123170801.F9557-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
In-Reply-To: <975523843.20030123225001@serebryakov.spb.ru>

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the vmware people don't list 5.0 as a supported os... theres probably a
reason for this.

Ken

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Lev Serebryakov wrote:

> Hello, current! How are you?
>
>   When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have
>   ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works
>   pretty well and I was totally satisfied.
>
>   My host is: 2xP!!!-770Mhz, 512Mb of memory, Hardware RAID with
>   2x40Gb IBM IDE HDDs (and one simple system disk). Host OS is W'2000 WS.
>
>   Now I'm trying to look at 5.0-RELEASE (I've downloaded ISO of first
>   i386 CD).
>
>   It doesn't work under VMWare 3.2! Ok, it works, really. But speed is
>   VERY low. I even could not do installation! Unpacking of
>   distributive have been started at normal speed, but after 2 or 3
>   minutes speed decreased to 6Kb/s and after that to 1Kb/s! `top' on
>   emergency console shows, that cpio+gunzip take only 5% of CPU,
>   system takes 25% of CPU and interrupts takes 70% of CPU!
>
>   4.6-RELEASE installs on same VMWare virtual computer without any
>   problems and works very fast!
>
>   Is it problem of VMWare or 5.0-RELEASE? Is it known problem? I could
>   provide any additional information, if needed.
>
>                Lev Serebryakov
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