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Date:      Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:31:05 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x
Message-ID:  <4613C4B9.4080603@freebsd.org>
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On 04/04/07 10:27, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:48:55AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Eric Anderson wrote:
>>
>> I can't contribute a lot of cash, but would be willing to help test.
>>
> 
> As I said, I will contribute at least $100.  However, I'd much rather
> see server (because my needs are very minimal, and I'd rather have the
> free vmware-server than the $189.00 workstation.
> 
> In the interim--I upgraded qemu last night, and I was impressed--it
> seemed much zippier than it's been (with a Win2k guest.)
> 
> 


Indeed.

Qemu with kqemu running, with some very crude benchmarks, looks like 
about 95% of native speed for cpu intensive things.

Also, I noticed it's faster when using a direct disk partition/device 
rather than an image (makes sense), and works very well.

Eric




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