From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 12 10: 1:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from elsamss06947.elsevier.nl (elsamss06947.elsevier.nl [145.36.5.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8C137B43E; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elsamss06948.elsevier.nl (unverified) by elsamss06947.elsevier.nl (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:36:00 +0200 Received: from olorin.elsevier.nl (olorin.elsevier.nl [145.36.13.14]) by elsamss06948.elsevier.nl (2.6 Build 1 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA01308; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:33:04 +0200 Received: from lap1.sohara.org (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.13.27]) by olorin.elsevier.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA18187; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:35:07 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:52:14 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Thomas David Rivers 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.3.28 (GTK+ 1.2.8; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE; i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:13:16 -0400 (EDT) Thomas David Rivers 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 It is raw devices (for discs) that linux doesn't have, they are all block devices - although I may be out of date it's been a while.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