From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Mar 29 7:25:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat194.99.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.194.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38DD37C0DA for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:25:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07680; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:25:02 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:25:02 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "ak@freenet.co.uk" Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How stable is VMWare under FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <38E20967.57582FBA@freenet.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message