Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 08:26:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware up, running ... and dog slow ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002050825570.57749-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002041345050.25537-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Morning all ... > > Well, just got 'the boss lady' upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT and > VMWare 2.0beta, and she's most impresssed with VMWare, as a concept, but > performance is terrible, so I'm *hoping* its just something that I can > improve through configuration? > > The machine is a PII-333 with 128meg of RAM ... > > The problem is readily apparent with just the mouse, where, when > you move it across the screen, it takes awhile for the pointer to decide > to catch up :) > > We tried to run one of the videos off the Win98 CD, and it loads > up and all, but you jump about 10 frames at a time, and picture quality > sucks :( > > top shows ram at ~70meg (SIZE) and ~45Meg (RES) ... > > I'm open to suggestions ... something maybe I've missed? I'm > looking at the VMWare Tools stuff, but it says its for 1.1, will it work > under 2 also? Interactive performance improves noticably when you install the VMWare Tools. They seem to work just as well with VMWare 2.0 as with 1.1. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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