From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 02:58:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A5E16A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 02:58:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from 194-185-53-242.f5.ngi.it (194-185-53-242.f5.ngi.it [194.185.53.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC08E43D46 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 02:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@remotelab.org) Received: from einstein.lab (einstein.lab [192.168.168.2]) i0QAwQ0K013950; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:58:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark@remotelab.org) Received: from einstein.lab (localhost.lab [127.0.0.1]) by einstein.lab (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0QAwDDx000697; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:58:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark@einstein.lab) Received: (from mark@localhost) by einstein.lab (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0QAwDIc000696; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:58:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:58:12 +0100 From: Marco Trentini To: Mike Silbersack Message-ID: <20040126105812.GA618@einstein.lab> References: <20040124151131.I29927@odysseus.silby.com> <20040124222442.GA57412@einstein.lab> <20040124191500.J29927@odysseus.silby.com> <20040125160052.GB620@einstein.lab> <20040126014941.L1599@odysseus.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040126014941.L1599@odysseus.silby.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New /dev/rtc driver for vmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:58:30 -0000 On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:54:21AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Marco Trentini wrote: > > > So, updating the port vmware (last version) and rtc (your version) not > > only I don't get more the panic at shutdown phase but I've seen a lot of > > improvements in my Virtual Machine. > > > > Now the audio/video (as .mp3 and .mpg) are very fluid. When I worked > > without the rtc module, the audio/video were unusable because them were > > reproduced jerkily. > > > > I've also noted a general improvement on the rapidity to run > > applications. > > > > A positive vote for me :) > > > > I run vmware on FreeBSD RELEASE-5.2 with "options HZ=1500" in my kernel > > and my virtual machine is a Windows 2000 Pro with SP4. > > > > I'm glad it's working well, but to be honest, it's not working correctly! > I just discovered that the way I wrote it, it will only work properly at > HZ=1000. I'll post the updated file once I have fixed it, which should be > soon. > > Actually, I should rephrase that... the way I wrote it, anything over > hz=1000 should work relatively well, but anything under hz=1000 would have > serious timing issues. > > Of course, I'd still appreciate it if people would continue testing... > just keep the hz setting near 1000. (I haven't found any other bugs yet.) > I've tested it with hz=1000 and it works as well. -- Marco Trentini mark@remotelab.org http://www.remotelab.org/