On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, james wrote: > Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP > SP1, running VMware 3.2. > > I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual machine just > gets slower and slower. When I'm monitoring the stats using top, I notice that > the CPU is spending ~50% of it's time in interrupt. If I Ctrl-C the procedure, > the load goes down, but interrupt % stays around 20-25% and the system is still > slow, even though it's not doing anything!
/sys/i386/conf/NOTES says: # CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG disables the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32 # machines. VmWare seems to emulate this instruction poorly, causing # the guest OS to run very slowly. So, you'll need to rebuild a new kernel on another system with: options CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG and copy it into the virtual machine in order to boot normally. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"