* Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010424 14:44] wrote:
>
> Alfred Perlstein writes:
> > So I've got this really elite machinery here to test on, problem is that
> > booting takes about 2 minutes each time I make a bad kernel, soooo...
>
> Do you mean that vmware boots so slowly that the extra reboot cycle
> required to install the next test kernel is painfully slow?
I acutally haven't tried vmware yet, I was hoping to utilize the
lists to find out others' experiences wrt using vmware like I
wish to.
> One thing to try to speedup vmware boots would be getting rid of the
> spinner in libstand -- vwware's dos-mode console i/o is painfully
> slow.
>
> The best way to cut the reboot wait time down is to network boot.
> Unfortunately, VMware's AMD PCInet card doesn't support PXE. Somebody
> here has been using something called "grub"
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/)
>
> Grub doesn't support FreeBSD very well (eg, it can't set the root
> device, set hints, etc). I think he was hacking grub to add those
> features, but I don't know how far he got...BTW, grub has no spinner.
>
> > Anyone using anything like vmware in order to have a rapid reboot/test
> > cycle for low level FreeBSD kernel coding? How fast is it to
>
> I've actually found real hardware to be much faster than vmware in
> most cases. My dream quick-reboot box has no scsi disks, can skip the
> memory test, has a serial console & loads its kernels via pxe.
Yeah, where do i buy one?
:)
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