Alex Kellett wrote:
>
> I've tried all the guests on my machine and all work except paging on
> which the vm crashes. Also i ran the 10 copies of the preemptive guest
> simultaneously and altough the machine went a bit slow (k6-2 450) they all
> counted up nicely and i saw no crashes for ~5mins even when running a
> couple of netscapes as well :) ...
That is more than I've tried! At some point, we'll have to have a contest
to see who can run the most OSes on one computer simultaneously.
"The FreeMWare Challenge" :^)
> BTW, the vm's only currently seem to work with memory sizes of 4mb + 8mb
> (iirc), is this the expected?
Yeah, 4meg quantities fit nicely into the paging scheme. The middle
10bits (page table bits) of an address span 4 megs. I couldn't see
any reason not to make life easy.
-Kevin
