Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:52:14 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: julian@elischer.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be? Message-ID: <20000912175214.1e5648e6.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <200009121413.KAA51124@lakes.dignus.com> References: <39BE38FC.41C67EA6@elischer.org> <200009121413.KAA51124@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:13:16 -0400 (EDT) Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> wrote: > > Julian Elischer (julian@elischer.org) wrote: > I'm confused... 'fraid so. It is raw devices (for discs) that linux doesn't have, they are all block devices - although I may be out of date it's been a while. > So, if Vmware runs on Linux, and Linux doesn't have any block devices, > why would Vmware need block devices? Vmware needs buffering for performance. ISTR some discussion when this came up (a while ago) of having buffered devices without block semantics. I'm not sure what came of it. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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