Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:58:12 +0100 From: Marco Trentini <mark@remotelab.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New /dev/rtc driver for vmware Message-ID: <20040126105812.GA618@einstein.lab> In-Reply-To: <20040126014941.L1599@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20040124151131.I29927@odysseus.silby.com> <20040124222442.GA57412@einstein.lab> <20040124191500.J29927@odysseus.silby.com> <20040125160052.GB620@einstein.lab> <20040126014941.L1599@odysseus.silby.com>
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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/
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