Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:20:27 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Vmware and -current Message-ID: <199912240920.EAA76863@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912232121400.61026-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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> seems to work fine, > except that now we don't have block devices any more > so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. > > I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger > on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices. Hmmm.... I wonder what it would take to bring them (block devices) back... probably out of the question at this point... > > of course this is w98. > FreeBSD 1.1.5 and freebsd 3.3 seem run as well but I've only run them off > virtual disks (which therefore have buffering) > - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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