the vmware people don't list 5.0 as a supported os... theres probably a reason for this.
Ken On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, current! How are you? > > When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have > ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works > pretty well and I was totally satisfied. > > My host is: 2xP!!!-770Mhz, 512Mb of memory, Hardware RAID with > 2x40Gb IBM IDE HDDs (and one simple system disk). Host OS is W'2000 WS. > > Now I'm trying to look at 5.0-RELEASE (I've downloaded ISO of first > i386 CD). > > It doesn't work under VMWare 3.2! Ok, it works, really. But speed is > VERY low. I even could not do installation! Unpacking of > distributive have been started at normal speed, but after 2 or 3 > minutes speed decreased to 6Kb/s and after that to 1Kb/s! `top' on > emergency console shows, that cpio+gunzip take only 5% of CPU, > system takes 25% of CPU and interrupts takes 70% of CPU! > > 4.6-RELEASE installs on same VMWare virtual computer without any > problems and works very fast! > > Is it problem of VMWare or 5.0-RELEASE? Is it known problem? I could > provide any additional information, if needed. > > Lev Serebryakov > /-----------------------------------------------\ > | FIDONet: 2:5030/661.0 | > | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Page: http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/ | > | ICQ UIN: 3670018 | > | Phone: You know, if you have world nodelist | > \===============================================/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
