Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:40:22 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel. Message-ID: <3AE65536.56502D52@elischer.org> References: <20010424130546.V1790@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > So I've got this really elite machinery here to test on, problem is that > booting takes about 2 minutes each time I make a bad kernel, soooo... > > Anyone using anything like vmware in order to have a rapid reboot/test > cycle for low level FreeBSD kernel coding? How fast is it to > restart the vmware environent and do I stand a chance in hell of > getting it working on FreeBSD-current? I do this all the time. If you use the nmdm driver you can run the vm machine under gdb and single step it etc. however it is not very fast.. > > thanks, > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] > Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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