From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 02:13:46 2003 Return-Path: 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 D3F4F37B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 02:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from greebo.hisser.org (greebo.hisser.org [62.49.72.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BB6643F3F for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 02:13:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamesp@hisser.org) Received: (qmail 20513 invoked by uid 500); 31 Mar 2003 10:13:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Mar 2003 10:13:31 -0000 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:13:31 +0100 (BST) From: james To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: FreeBSD in VMware? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:13:48 -0000 Hi Folks Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP SP1, running VMware 3.2. I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual machine just gets slower and slower. When I'm monitoring the stats using top, I notice that the CPU is spending ~50% of it's time in interrupt. If I Ctrl-C the procedure, the load goes down, but interrupt % stays around 20-25% and the system is still slow, even though it's not doing anything! FreeBSD 4.8-RC2 doesn't seem to have the same problem, I have successfully built world and it stayed responsive. I have tried various things like disabling IDE DMA on the in the virtual machine's BIOS to no effect. Anyone? Cheers, James