From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 11:13:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 680) id 50E3816A407; Thu, 10 May 2007 11:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:13:26 +0000 From: Darren Reed To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070510111326.GA94093@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:22:27 +0000 Cc: Subject: Experiences with 7.0-CURRENT and vmware. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:13:26 -0000 I'm using FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT under vmware and there are a few issues. First, time. hint.hw.acpi.disabled="1" This appears to make _no_ difference to time keeping on FreeBSD 7 and nor does it seem to have any impact on ACPI being loaded. Do I need to recompile a new kernel without it or is there a new way to disable ACPI? I should add that FreeBSD 6, with the same setting, is no better and that I need to run ntpdate every 5-10 minutes via crontab in order to keep good time (timekeeping is *really* bad.) In one instance, i was watching "zpool iostat 1" and it appeared like the rows were muching up at a rate of 2 a second for a minute or so. How do I disable TSC timekeeping? (NetBSD has this disabled by default in their kernels.) Or is there somethign else I must do? Second, networking. Prior to FreeBSD-7, the driver to use inside vmware workstation was lnc. It has worked and contiues to work great. No problemo. FreeBSD-7 uses the "em" driver. To put it simply, it sucks in comparison. When things really get bad I start seeing "em0: watchdog timeout" messages on the console. I looked and I don't see a lnc driver anywhere. Is there another alternative (le?) driver that I can use in place of em, if so, how? Apart from these two issues (which are very central ones :-(), I'm using FreeBSD in a 64bit vmware workstation environment quick successfully and ZFS is quite happy with all the kva :-) ZFS and zpools are working just as I expect, even if a bit slower due to vmware but I'm not cranking out benchmarks here. Oh, and how do I fix ssh/rsh to do passwordless sessions? I'm trying to setup cron jobs to automate various tasks but there's this small hurdle called a password prompt that I can't seem to get rid of :-/ Cheers, Darren