Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:44:48 +0100 (CET) From: "Max Laier" <max.laier@tm.uka.de> To: "Mike Silbersack" <silby@silby.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] Auto-setting hz to 100 inside QEMU/VMWare Message-ID: <55777.2001:6f8:12c8:1:21d:60ff:fe0c:1771.1198863888.squirrel@router.laiers.local> In-Reply-To: <20071228015651.X1565@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20071228015651.X1565@odysseus.silby.com>
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Am Fr, 28.12.2007, 09:03, schrieb Mike Silbersack: > > When running FreeBSD inside QEMU / VMWare, one of my pet peeves is that > time is completely inaccurate. This seems to be cured by setting > kern.hz=100 (down from the default of 1000) in /boot/loader.conf, but I'm > getting sick of doing that every time I set up a virtual box. > > So, here's a patch to have the kernel auto-detect that it's running inside > one of those two environments and automatically make that adjustment. > > If you're running FreeBSD inside any other virtual environments > (Parallels? Microsoft Virtual PC?) and can detect them via data in kenv, > I'll be happy to add them to the patch as well. > > I have only tested this patch in QEMU so far, I will test inside VMWare > tomorrow. > > If anyone could review and/or test this, it would be appreciated. > > Thanks, VirtualBox (QEMU based) has hint.acpi.0.oem="VBOX ". -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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