From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Feb 5 0:23: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A524558 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 00:22:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12H0Ux-000Eq2-0U; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 08:23:21 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09228; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 08:12:11 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 08:26:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware up, running ... and dog slow ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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