From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 25 15:44:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8895937B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:44:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from portal.aphroland.org (portal.aphroland.org [216.39.174.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B18C143F18 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:44:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@aphroland.org) Received: by portal.aphroland.org (Postfix, from userid 1010) id 31C7B278017; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:44:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from portal.aphroland.org (debian [127.0.0.1]) by portal.aphroland.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D2BE27800B for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:44:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from redhat.aphroland.org ([10.10.10.7]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user aphro) by webmail.linuxpowered.net with HTTP; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:44:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38719.10.10.10.7.1043538258.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:44:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE in VMware From: "nate" To: X-XheaderVersion: 1.1 X-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 In-Reply-To: <000901c2c469$8c9e4cf0$0a00a8c0@michaelslaptop> References: <000901c2c469$8c9e4cf0$0a00a8c0@michaelslaptop> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_3,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.42 X-Spam-Level: X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-URL: http://mailtools.anomy.net/ X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Ritchie said: > Not sure if this should be in -QUESTIONS or a report to VMware themselves, > but when attempting to run FreeBSD 5 within VMware Workstation 3.2 on a > Windows XP Pro host, the CPU usage sits at 100% -- whether there are any > processes undertaking heavy processing or not. The host PC is a 1.7GHz > P4, with 512MB RAM, so there shouldn't be any problems. It takes about 2 > minutes for 'man man' to bring up a page. 4.6.2 and 4.7 both work GREAT, > even in X. > > Any thoughts on why this might be the case?? this is symtomatic of the guest OS(freebsd in this case) not having advanced power management features enabled. Solaris/x86 on vmware does the same thing, unfortunately solaris(last time I tried it on vmware it was solaris 7) had _no_ power management features(e.g. issue HLT instructions) so the host OS always sat at 100% cpu, even if the guest OS was at 0% cpu usage. if you do have power management turned on(I've never used freebsd 5) then it may be a bug in vmware. I tend to lean towards the guest OS though. nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message