From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Feb 9 11:21:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9854215; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA07705; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:20:34 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:20:34 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VmWare Performance Message-ID: <20000209192034.I39387@florence.pavilion.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20000209101950.0096aa30@midwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000209101950.0096aa30@midwest.net> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:19:50AM -0600, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: > Hello all, > I've been playing around with the new WMWware(beta) port on 4.0 current > using the -rawdisk option to load my win98(dual boot machine) as the guest > operating system. I've created an alternate hardware profile, and > everything seems to be detected and running fine within win98, but guest > operating system runs about the speed of win98 running on a 386 > machine(menus seem to pop up quickly, but are really slow when they have to > access disk, or load new info). > I've increased the RAM available to 72, and installed the rtc kld(?) but > performance still sucks. Current my system is a thinkpad 600, PII 300, 128 > Ram with 4.0 current (2/1/2000?). Has anyone else used the rawdisk option? > Or booted an existing OS, or installed new versions of win98/95 in virtual > partitions? And if so whats the performance like?.. My experience was that booting my native win98 partition seemed more slugish than a virtual disk on a file on the FreeBSD partition. I've not used it much though, and my Win98 partition is setup for a Vaio rather than Vmware. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message