Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Unless the two machines have identical CPUs with identical capabilities, this will likely end in failure. Operating systems aren't happy having their CPUs switch capabilities or instruction sets between one cycle and the next. I hadn't considered that. I assumed VMware virtualised the CPU, so that hot-swapping would be possible without a panic. You mean it allows direct access to the CPU? builder# dmesg | head | grep CPU: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz (2008.36-MHz 686-c So it does. Didn't notice that. Oh well, I can just start the VM on the slower machine. :) Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE
Hi all. Has anyone tried running VMware Player 2 for Linux under the FreeBSD Linux ABI? I'll give it a go myself, of course, but I'm interested in others' experiences. My RELENG_6_2 kernel/world build server works perfectly under the WinXP version of Player 2. I'm doing this because it'd be nice if I could suspend the VM, copy it to USB stick, transfer it to BSD and start it again, so I could use the Windows box for playing a game or watching a movie while the make runs. [I can't do that with the VM running. I find WinXP tends to panic if I try to run more than one application at once. Understandable really, since it only has 1GB RAM to play with.] I've installed the vmware3 port on my i386 6.2-RELEASE-p7 laptop, but of course that won't run Player 2 machines. Any thoughts? I don't know if anyone's interested to play with this VM, but if you are let me know and I'll put it on my website. Or a Torrent tracker maybe. It's not big, less than 400MB when compressed with 7-zip. A prepackaged USB stick sized kernel/world build server? Would that be useful to anyone apart from me? BTW the disk is only a 2000MB growable VMDK, so you can't use it for a distfiles repository or building ports. TiA, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE
Adam J Richardson wrote: I'm doing this because it'd be nice if I could suspend the VM, copy it to USB stick, transfer it to BSD and start it again, so I could use the Windows box for playing a game or watching a movie while the make runs. Unless the two machines have identical CPUs with identical capabilities, this will likely end in failure. Operating systems aren't happy having their CPUs switch capabilities or instruction sets between one cycle and the next. Likewise, I've noticed that different CPU speeds tend to screw with the VM system clock, especially amongst speedstep CPUs. Shutting down, moving, and restarting the VM works fine though, from my experience. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
