5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there people And thanks for taking the time to read the flow of incoming questions on this list ;-) My question is a followup of the thread started by Michael Ritchie a couple weeks ago http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?

Re: 5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:51 AM +0100 2/13/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm kinda in the same situation : XP Pro, WMWare 3.2, several virtual machines running fine (linux,w2k), but the freebsd 5-RELEASE is quite a pain to use in this env. The guest OS keeps on slowing down, to the point that it's unusable. Kris

Re: 5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there everyone At 10:51 AM +0100 2/13/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will find an option called CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG I read that one and didn't read (my newbie fault) that it was so closely related to VMWare. I realize you then have the problem of how to compile the new kernel