Re: VMWare

[Emil Pedersen <emilp@update.uu.se>]

nate wrote:
> 
> <quote who="Emil Pedersen">
> 
> > Of course, when you run linux on your primary screen, two vmwares
> > with win2k and solaris8 on your secondary screen, it tends to be a
> > little slow on a celeron 533;-)
> 
> im not sure if solaris 8 fixed it or not(i don't think it
> did). but solaris 7 did not have APM support, and it could
> not issue the HLT instruction. the result was the host
> OS would always be pegged at 100% cpu usage while solaris 7
> was running under vmware. even on a p3-800 it was slow..

No it didn't, at least not from wmcpuload's perspective.  It's basicly
100% all the time, but the system is still quite responsable.  (That is
of course relative, since a 533cel is not a speed freak anytime.)
  It's quite fun though, to run three OS's at the same time on the same
lousy machine.  At least it clearly shows that one might very well
benefit more from enough memory than a fancy cpu...

// Emil


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> nate
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