Walter Hop writes:
> [in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], 25-04-2001]
>
> > Interesting. What happens if it's like the reverse where one runs
> > FreeBSD under vmware from Windows2000? Since 5-10% seems to be really
> > slow.
>
> I always try out new applications in a virtual machine running FreeBSD
> on my Windows workstation, it's lovely. I/O is painfully slow, but
> in normal situations performance is >10%... (PII-350, 256MB ram)
Note that the 5-10% I was talking about is just the tertiary
bootloader (/boot/loader). I mentioned it because the original poster
was primarily concerned about 'bootstones' -- in more normal
situations (ie, once the kernel is loaded) I'd say performance is more
like 40-80% of native.
Drew
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