Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:20:34 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VmWare Performance Message-ID: <20000209192034.I39387@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000209101950.0096aa30@midwest.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20000209101950.0096aa30@midwest.net>
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:19:50AM -0600, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: > Hello all, > I've been playing around with the new WMWware(beta) port on 4.0 current > using the -rawdisk option to load my win98(dual boot machine) as the guest > operating system. I've created an alternate hardware profile, and > everything seems to be detected and running fine within win98, but guest > operating system runs about the speed of win98 running on a 386 > machine(menus seem to pop up quickly, but are really slow when they have to > access disk, or load new info). > I've increased the RAM available to 72, and installed the rtc kld(?) but > performance still sucks. Current my system is a thinkpad 600, PII 300, 128 > Ram with 4.0 current (2/1/2000?). Has anyone else used the rawdisk option? > Or booted an existing OS, or installed new versions of win98/95 in virtual > partitions? And if so whats the performance like?.. My experience was that booting my native win98 partition seemed more slugish than a virtual disk on a file on the FreeBSD partition. I've not used it much though, and my Win98 partition is setup for a Vaio rather than Vmware. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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