-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As I can tell from my experince, the factor depends a lot from the host speed and emulation / virtualisation software. I saw speed differences from about a bit faster ( > 1.0) up to 10 times.
Most emulators / virtualizer are now close to 1 (as of QEMU and VMware). There is no real / perfect solution to have a precise clock in a VM. This is because it would have a big performance penalty. Most people use a time server in the VM to correct the shift. Another thing when running FreeDOS in a VM is the CPU usage of the host machine. It will be go to 100% and the CPU fan will start. I use always the FDAPM with the parameter APMDOS so the HLT command is used (I think it's the instruction). With this, the host CPU is about 4% usage on my 1GHz WinXP machine, like with any other program when idle. It think it would be a good idea to include the loading of FDAPM in the FreeDOS distro, as I think a lot of the people will try out FreeDOS in a VM. Sincerly Andreas Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > Hi! > > 19-Июл-2006 17:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to > [email protected]: > > AB> for two days and I had to read about 70 mail... I personally use QEMU > AB> and VMware Server for testing purposes and timers often run too fast. I > AB> remember that I saw this effect in Bochs too. > > Does this mean, that when you run some program, which shows clock (for > example, Norton and Volcov Commander may show clock), then this clock is too > fast? And how it fast - 1.5 logical seconds per real second? 2 second per > second? 100 seconds per second? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEv7LPkyKr2gmercERAlmVAJ90ki5UdAG/JCzWKtqA8fpngLCcRACdHEa0 Ig3LZu9hFUi1iGqv/sMz9rM= =4/uH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
