Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:42:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> Cc: Glenn Gombert <freebsd@fastmail.fm>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>, Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: -current as guest of VMWare2 Message-ID: <3CF7EE50.AAF2BB43@mindspring.com> References: <20020531160929.813856DA42@www.fastmail.fm> <20020531131905.A70573@unixdaemons.com>
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Bosko Milekic wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:09:29PM +0000, Glenn Gombert wrote: > > You need to apply the patch that was posted sometime ago to -Current > > to run it successfully as a Guest OS under VMWare 3.x... > > I tried searching the archives and couldn't find anything with VMware > and a patch, just some things mentionning that VMWare has trouble with > locking primitives. > > What does the patch do? Avoids using the "LCK" prefix, which VMWare emulates very, very slowly. The avoidance is OK, because VMWare systems are never emulating multiprocessors. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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