Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:25:07 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <jim@pirzyk.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/include atomic.h Message-ID: <200210152125.08142.jim@pirzyk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210151823350.81042-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210151823350.81042-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Tuesday 15 October 2002 06:23 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
> How many SMP vmware's have you seen?
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> > > pirzyk 2002/10/14 12:33:12 PDT
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > sys/conf options.i386
> > > sys/i386/conf NOTES
> > > sys/i386/include atomic.h
> > > Log:
> > > Add a knob to turn on and off the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 I=
A32
> > > systems. This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs.
> >
> > Setting this option in an SMP kernel makes it die a horrible death
> > during boot.
Are you setting this on the host OS or the guest OS's kernel? This is on=
ly
for the guest OS (ie running within vmware). Checking the VmWare
web site, the make no mention of SMP Virtual Machines (they always
talk about processor, not processors).
- JimP
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