From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 12 6:28:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5F937B423 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8CDRk307198 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:27:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:27:45 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: current@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be? Message-ID: <20000912142745.A7121@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to be? I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the following disk controller / disk atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ad0: 17301MB [35152/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 This is -current from about three weeks ago. It works, but it's a bit slow. Applications themselves run at a reasonable speed, but every now and then (can be as frequent as 10-15 seconds) the guest OS (Windows 98 in this case) will freeze or run very slowly -- the mouse pointer doesn't track properly, keystrokes are queued up. After a couple of second things settle back down, the queued keystrokes and mouse movements manifest in the window, and so on, only to repeat shortly afterwards. I don't have this sort of problem with other apps (unless I load 56 copies of Netscape, naturally). Is this a common issue people are seeing? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message