From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 15 19:14:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 304B914BD2 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 27783 invoked from network); 16 Jul 1999 02:14:29 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 16 Jul 1999 02:14:29 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare plug/quickie tests. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been running VM Ware under NT for a few days now, booting FreeBSD and other OS's. In some quick testing: The host machine is NT 4.0, SP5, 384MB RAM, dual 450 PII's. The guest OS is FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, configured with the VMWARE 512MB disk, and 32MB RAM allocated Compiling a generic kernel from scratch came out: 156.7u 64.3s 5:04.63 72.5%, ...149pf On a PII 300 with IDE disks, 128MB RAM, it was: (3.2-stable) 205.7u 17.9s 6:56.37 53.7%, ...32pf+0w All in all, not too shabby. So far it hasn't crashed, although I am not running X in the guest session yet, just using it in console mode. It has some weird pauses and stuff when it boots up, and the boot loader spinner creeps along, but once it's up and running, it's fine. I can see the utility of this pretty easily. Just wish it wasn't 400 bucks. I'm going to do some testing between VM's and such, and see how it goes. Next stop, 4.0-current. It doesn't consume any CPU cycles that I can see while idle, and running it at the standard priorities isn't affecting my NT stuff at all... I could grow to like it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message