Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:09:20 +1300 From: "James Butler" <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org, silby@silby.com Subject: Re: [patch] Auto-setting hz to 100 inside QEMU/VMWare Message-ID: <f0dd9eb90712290109g31f240dalfb9710a855109221@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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. On innotek VirtualBox: hint.acpi.0.oem="VBOX " > > 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, > > Mike "Silby" Silbersack Thanks, James Butler
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