Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:00:47 +0100 (BST) From: "Dominic Marks" <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> To: "Darren Reed" <darrenr@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with 7.0-CURRENT and vmware. Message-ID: <4504.195.12.22.194.1178798447.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070510111326.GA94093@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20070510111326.GA94093@hub.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Darren Reed wrote: > > 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? Does: hint.apic.0.disabled=1 Help? > 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 :-/ Use a password-free (R|D)SA key. Dominic
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4504.195.12.22.194.1178798447.squirrel>