Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:44:18 -0800 (PST) From: "nate" <freebsd@aphroland.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE in VMware Message-ID: <38719.10.10.10.7.1043538258.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> In-Reply-To: <000901c2c469$8c9e4cf0$0a00a8c0@michaelslaptop> References: <000901c2c469$8c9e4cf0$0a00a8c0@michaelslaptop>
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Michael Ritchie said: > Not sure if this should be in -QUESTIONS or a report to VMware themselves, > but when attempting to run FreeBSD 5 within VMware Workstation 3.2 on a > Windows XP Pro host, the CPU usage sits at 100% -- whether there are any > processes undertaking heavy processing or not. The host PC is a 1.7GHz > P4, with 512MB RAM, so there shouldn't be any problems. It takes about 2 > minutes for 'man man' to bring up a page. 4.6.2 and 4.7 both work GREAT, > even in X. > > Any thoughts on why this might be the case?? this is symtomatic of the guest OS(freebsd in this case) not having advanced power management features enabled. Solaris/x86 on vmware does the same thing, unfortunately solaris(last time I tried it on vmware it was solaris 7) had _no_ power management features(e.g. issue HLT instructions) so the host OS always sat at 100% cpu, even if the guest OS was at 0% cpu usage. if you do have power management turned on(I've never used freebsd 5) then it may be a bug in vmware. I tend to lean towards the guest OS though. nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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