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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,
> --
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