* MC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This happens to me with Project Indiana and Nexenta > > guests, Windows XP 32bit host, and Core 2 Duo e6300 > > processor. > > > > On Project Indiana specifically: > > > > 1) Grub to "_" takes 4 seconds. > > 2) "_" to "SunOS Release 5.11" takes 3:55 (three > > minutes and 55 seconds) > > 3) "SunOS Release 5.11" to Gnome login takes 1:30. > > 4) Gnome login to desktop takes 20 seconds. > > > > Part 2 is what concerns me. It sits there at the > > black screen using 100% of one CPU core but no disk > > activity. For 4 minutes it sits there thinking. Is > > that supposed to happen? > > > > Removing $ISADIR from the Grub bootup commands makes > > no difference. Warm rebooting from the console with > > "reboot" makes no difference. > > > > (For comparison, Ubuntu takes about 1:00 to get from > > Grub to the Gnome login, and OSX 10.5 takes about the > > same. A FreeBSD 7 base install and a cut down > > version of Vista both take about 30 seconds.) > > > > Thanks for the input. > > Further testing shows that the live cd of Project Indiana Developer Preview 2 > boots up quickly in Vmware. But when installed in Vmware, it boots up slowly.
If you're doing this in a 64-bit vm, and seeing a long (few minute) pause when booting this is a known vmware issue. 32-bit vm's don't suffer from this. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
