From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 31 14:43:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A9D37B408 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 14:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0324.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.69] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17DuAz-0003hy-00; Fri, 31 May 2002 14:43:14 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF7EE50.AAF2BB43@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:42:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bosko Milekic Cc: Glenn Gombert , "David W. Chapman Jr." , Nicolas Souchu , Current Subject: Re: -current as guest of VMWare2 References: <20020531160929.813856DA42@www.fastmail.fm> <20020531131905.A70573@unixdaemons.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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