On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> Someone recently added an 'SMP' file to sys/i386/conf, which just
> includes GENERIC, changes the 'ident' and then turns on the SMP
> and APIC_IO options. Perhaps we should add a VMWARE one, with an
> eye towards building a "vmware-appropriate" kerne
At 11:56 AM -0800 1/23/03, Brooks Davis wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Now I'm trying to look at 5.0-RELEASE (I've downloaded ISO
> of first i386 CD).
>
> It doesn't work under VMWare 3.2! Ok, it works, really. But
> speed is VERY low. I even
the vmware people don't list 5.0 as a supported os... theres probably a
reason for this.
Ken
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, current! How are you?
>
> When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have
> ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. I
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Brooks!
> Thursday, January 23, 2003, 10:56:28 PM, you wrote:
>
> BD> From sys/i386/conf/NOTES:
> BD> # CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG disables the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32
> BD> # machines. VmWare seems to emulate this instruction poorly, causi
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:04:32PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hmm... I need installer with special kernel... Is it possible without
> building full release?
I don't know of a way to do it without building a release, though I
think you might be able to get by with only a buildworld and
build
Hello, Brooks!
Thursday, January 23, 2003, 10:56:28 PM, you wrote:
BD> From sys/i386/conf/NOTES:
BD> # CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG disables the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32
BD> # machines. VmWare seems to emulate this instruction poorly, causing
BD> # the guest OS to run very slowly. Enabling thi
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> It doesn't work under VMWare 3.2! Ok, it works, really. But speed is
> VERY low. I even could not do installation! Unpacking of
> distributive have been started at normal speed, but after 2 or 3
> minutes speed decreased to
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, current! How are you?
>
> When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have
> ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works
> pretty well and I was totally satisfied.
>
> My host is: 2x
Hello, current! How are you?
When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have
``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works
pretty well and I was totally satisfied.
My host is: 2xP!!!-770Mhz, 512Mb of memory, Hardware RAID with
2x40Gb IBM IDE HDDs (and one
