Just as a data point, vmware 2.0.4.1142 under 4.4-STABLE as host boots 4.2-4.4-STABLE guest extremely slowly, and freezes at the 'mounting root' line under 5.0-CURRENT, as of 10/21/2001.
I left it alone for five hours under -CURRENT, no way it would move. Brad // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, CL wrote: > As far as I can tell, the extremely slow boot problem is specific to > VMWare for WindowsNT when running on the latest Athlon processors. > VMWare for Linux, running under FreeBSD host of the same Athlon > processor using the same guest image, does not have any problem. > > If host Windows 2K is a Petium II or III, then it runs with no problem. I > think > VMWare should fix this for Athlon for its Window version of VMWare. > I say this because its Linux version works fine on an Athlon host. > > There may be a quick fix on the FreeBSD side. I have a GENERIC FreeBSD > kernel built off CURRENT tree around March 2, 2001 that actually boots on > the Athlon host without problem. Unfortunately I didn't keep the version of > the source tree. Maybe someone on FreeBSD lists can tell what is causing > this problem (some code triggered a VMWare slow path on Athlon > processor ???) > > > Steve Neuharth wrote: > > > I have no problem running freebsd... 4.3 and 4.4 > > > > "Ian Jenkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Ladies and Gentlemen of this newsgroup, > > > I sent this one to genereal, but unfortunately nobody answer so I > > > was wondering if this group could be in a position > > > to help me > > > Thanks > > > Ian Jenkinson > > > > > > Subject: Windows 2000 Host running FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE guest > > > Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 15:43:46 +0100 > > > From: Ian Jenkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Organization: VMware, Inc. > > > Newsgroups: vmware.for-windowsnt.general > > > > > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > > I am having a lot of difficulty in running FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE as a > > > guest OS on my Windows 2000 (SP2) workstation. I have > > > installed Linux RedHat 6.1 and Linux SuSe 7.1 VMs and they work just > > > fine. The install process of the two boot floppies for FreeBSD passed > > > off without great event, except for ftp timeouts and retries. However it > > > > > > takes well over 30 minutes to boot the installed > > > FreeBSD and burns the host CPU to the ground (an Athlon 1.3Ghz with > > > 512MB)! > > > If anyone has any thoughts or guidance on what's happening I would > > > be delighted to hear them. > > > Yours > > > Ian > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
