Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:44:41PM +0200, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > Let me first ask ... do you use the "suspend/resume" option?? Yep. > This caused the same "lockup" every few seconds on my machine too - > a much slower 400 PII. As soon as I "shutdown" Win9X and rebooted > it worked fine.

Re: No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-15 Thread Mike Smith
> Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > FWIW, I was never happy with the removal of block devices either. I > > was shouted down with "can you point to any one use they are?", to > > which I replied "just because I don't know of one doesn't mean there > > isn't one, or that there will never be one in the fu

Re: No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-14 Thread Wes Peters
Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > Doesn't Oracle run MUCH better when given raw block disk devices to store > > data on? > > Oracle wants to cache it's own data, it doesn't want the buffer cache > behind it. Yes, now it's all coming back. It's amazing how much you can forget in the space of a decad

Re: No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-14 Thread Wes Peters
Greg Lehey wrote: > > FWIW, I was never happy with the removal of block devices either. I > was shouted down with "can you point to any one use they are?", to > which I replied "just because I don't know of one doesn't mean there > isn't one, or that there will never be one in the future". This

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-14 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:48:20AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC wrote: > You're running vmware sucsessfully in --current? Yes. -current from August 18th, and I'm running the vmware2-2.0.2.621 port. Installing Win98 took about 4 hours though -- most of that was wh

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC
T) > From: Reinier Bezuidenhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be? > > Hi .. > > I d

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC
You're running vmware sucsessfully in --current? I sync'd up the last time I was in the office (last...Friday?) and the linux emulation package refused to build in --current; complaining about an incopatible kernel module. In fact, i had to comment out the linux proc file system (from the linux

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-13 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:09:00AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on >pci0 > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > > ad0: 17301MB [35152/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > > > > This is -current

No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 September 2000 at 10:13:16 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Nik Clayton wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to >>> be? >>> >>> I'm running it quite successful

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:27:45PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > be? I'm running it on my PIII 366 laptop. It's not great, but it's usable. The biggest factors I've seen effecting performance are memory related. Runnin

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:13:16 -0400 (EDT) Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm confused... 'fraid so. It is raw devices (for discs) that linux doesn't have, they are all block devices - although I may be out of date it's bee

RE: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Reinier Bezuidenhout
I have seen this too ... Let me first ask ... do you use the "suspend/resume" option?? If Yes then :) This caused the same "lockup" every few seconds on my machine too - a much slower 400 PII. As soon as I "shutdown" Win9X and rebooted it worked fine. I guess it is something in VMware that s

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > > be? > > > > I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the > > following disk controller / dis

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Julian Elischer
Nik Clayton wrote: > > Hi guys, > > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > be? > > I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the > following disk controller / disk > > atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on pci0 >

VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi guys, For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to be? I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the following disk controller / disk atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 a