Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:25:02 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "ak@freenet.co.uk" <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How stable is VMWare under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003291121240.840-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <38E20967.57582FBA@freenet.co.uk>
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I'm not happy witih the performance of VMWare on a 'single processor
machine', but I've currently only got a PII-450 on my desk, with 256MEg of
RAM and SCSI drives. I just picked up a dual-celeron 466 for home, that
when the second chip comes in, I'm going to see if that helps (ie. VMWARE
hopefully grabs an idle CPU) ...
On a PIII machine here in the office, we've also noticed that the machine
'hangs' periodically with an IDE drive ... it appears to be when Windoze
decides to do some serious disk trashing, but tha tone only has 64Meg of
RAM, so the memory available to VMware is very small.
IMHO, I figure putting the VMware "file systems" onto its own disk should
help some, and, hopefully, a second CPU will help some too ...
stability wise, I've been most happy with it ...
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, ak@freenet.co.uk wrote:
> The subject says it all really - most of the development in my company
> is for Windows (NT/9x), and I'm really tired of having to reboot my
> machine every couple of hours of intensive debugging, so I was thinking
> of using VMWare for Linux under FreeBSD, since it's much easier to pull
> the plug on a virtual box. However, I need to be certain that VMWare
> can cope with everything I want to do under Windows - in particular,
> compile and debug programs that use lots of virtual memory (I'm going to
> give VMWare 128Mb of RAM, but Windows might have to swap intensively).
> So all in all, is it reasonable to expect to be able to run Visual C++
> and develop/debug large applications in a WinNT VMWare session without
> affecting the stability and responsiveness of the FreeBSD box (which I
> hope to use for other things as well)? I would also need to mount
> FreeBSD Samba shares from VMWare in order to exchange and back up data
> (assuming it's possible). I have a PIII-550, 256Mb RAM - what
> performance can I expect out of VMWare (w/128Mb RAM)?
>
> Any advice will be much appreciated.
>
> Alex Keahan
>
>
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