Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:11:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a vmware guist - boots like molasses Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206202309080.34612-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <2326.66.237.77.34.1024615829.squirrel@medusa.kfu.com>
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I found it slow when using the real disk but much faster if usung a virtual disk.. I also limited the virtual machine to 32 MB which also made it faster.... but that was a long time ago... On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Nick Sayer wrote: > I have FreeBSD installed as a VMware guest on a Windows 2000 machine. > > Up until the point where it actually boots the kernel, it is as slow as > molasses. It takes upwards of 15 minutes to get to the point where it > spits out the kernel Copyright message. Then it takes about 15 seconds to > complete the entire rest of the boot procedure (up to the login promtp). > I see another message in the archives where someone speculates that this > is Athlon related, but this machine is a Dell C810 laptop. Everything > about the boot environment is horribly slow. If I interrupt the loader and > start typing, the key repeat latency is 45 seconds or so. > Booting from CD is fast enough, however (unless I interrupt the loader and > try typing anything). Lately I have been booting the CD and using 'boot > -a' to tell it to find the filesystem on the hard disk. Of course, once > the kernel is loaded, everything is fine. > This is VMware workstation 3.0 on a Windows 2000 machine. The guest is > 4.6-RELEASE. > Has anyone gotten this working any better than this? > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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