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Date:      Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:47:42 +0300
From:      Thanos Rizoulis <yahoo@pcbsd.homeunix.com>
To:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtualization of FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4669B25E.9060204@pcbsd.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070608003637.4595b961@localhost>
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O/H Norberto Meijome έγραψε:
> you mean problems with the lnc0 , as seen by FBSD in the VM? interesting, i've
> never had any problems, but I run VMWare server under Centos 4.
>
> I'll give the e1000 a try  :) thx for the tip.
>
> send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
>   
Under various versions of vmware, lnc0 just choked and caused 
disconnection under the first few seconds in a simple stress situation 
(eg a 4MB file transfer over SSH, or some equal samba file transfer). 
The em driver was the solution to all these problems. If I remember 
correctly, selecting a x64 edition of guest OS or selecting 2 CPU cores, 
provides you directly with em instead of lnc.

My opinion about MS virtual PC is that it gave me the once in a lifetime 
opportunity to capture a full BSOD in bitmap file. I put it as a desktop 
in a public PC, and laughed as everyone kept pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del. I 
dumped MS virtual PC shortly after.

One serious tip about Vmware, is that when selecting disks, you can 
select a *physical* disk instead of a virtual and proceed with 
installation on that physical disk. Or you can keep a freebsd server 
installed on a virtual disk, then connect a physical disk on the same VM 
and dump/restore as you please. It has been tested with over 7GB OS 
installs and works like a charm.

-- 
RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens
_________________________________________
Thanos Rizoulis
Electronic Computing Systems Engineer
Larissa, Greece
FreeBSD/PCBSD user




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