Re: -current as guest of VMWare2

2002-05-31 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
I'm running windows XP and vmware 3.1.1 with a guest os of FreeBSD 4.5 which I'm going to upgrade to -current. I couldn't find too much info on this thread. Does anyone know if vmware3 is affected by this problem when using a windows host os? -- David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: -current as guest of VMWare2

2002-05-31 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:54AM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: I'm running windows XP and vmware 3.1.1 with a guest os of FreeBSD 4.5 which I'm going to upgrade to -current. I couldn't find too much info on this thread. Does anyone know if vmware3 is affected by this problem when

Re: -current as guest of VMWare2

2002-05-31 Thread Glenn Gombert
You need to apply the patch that was posted sometime ago to -Current to run it successfully as a Guest OS under VMWare 3.x... Glenn G. On Fri, 31 May 2002 10:54:54 -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm running windows XP and vmware 3.1.1 with a guest os of FreeBSD 4.5

Re: -current as guest of VMWare2

2002-05-31 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:09:29PM +, Glenn Gombert wrote: You need to apply the patch that was posted sometime ago to -Current to run it successfully as a Guest OS under VMWare 3.x... I tried searching the archives and couldn't find anything with VMware and a patch, just some

Re: -current as guest of VMWare2

2002-05-31 Thread Glenn Gombert
Here is the patch from a previous posting that fixes the problem of running FreeBSD -Current as a Guest OS under VMWare Workstation 3.0: Someone mentioned on a list somewhere that vmware takes forever to emulate the cmpxchg instruction, and that using the I386_CPU version of

Re: -current as guest of VMWare2

2002-05-31 Thread Bosko Milekic
HAH! This patch was posted by iedowse in response to one of MY POSTS and it does EXACTLY what I described in my previous Email, point (2). PLZ DO NOT BRING MY HOPES UP BY STATING THAT THERE IS ANOTHER PATCH WHICH DOES SOMETHING DIFFERENT WHEN IT FACT IT DOES WHAT I ALREADY KNOW I SHOULD DO K

Re: -current as guest of VMWare2

2002-05-30 Thread Glenn Gombert
There is a patch to fix this problem that I posted to the list sometime ago. I don't have it handy right now, but you can find it in the mailing list archive... Glenn G. On Thu, 30 May 2002 23:46:50 +0200, Nicolas Souchu [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi folks, I'm currently trying to install

Re: -current as guest of VMWare2

2002-05-30 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:46:50PM +0200, Nicolas Souchu wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently trying to install -current as a guest OS of VMWare2 running under 4.6RC. The problem is that it works correctly except that after some processing, the VMWare2 engine slows down the OS incredibly. To