Hi Julian,
    Responses inline.

Regards,
Ambarish

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org 
> [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org] On Behalf Of Julian C. 
> Dunn - Lists
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 9:34 PM
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: NetBSD on VMWare
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 19:16, Ambarish Malpani wrote:
> >     I have been running NetBSD on VMWare (on Win2K) for 
> about 4 months 
> > now and am very, very happy with it.
> 
> Just curious, what version of VMWare and NetBSD are you 
> using? I had problems booting NetBSD 1.6.1 as a guest under 
> VMWare Workstation 4. (The VMWare virtual IDE disk is not 
> recognized by NetBSD, and if you use a virtual SCSI disk, 
> NetBSD performs SCSI function calls which cause the virtual 
> Buslogic driver to blow up, thereby crashing VMWare.)

I was using Workstation 3 and upgraded to Workstation 4. Both
worked just fine. I am on NetBSD 1.6.1. Used the virtual IDE
disk.

> 
> > 1. Can't get vmware tools for NetBSD. I don't care much for the 
> > graphics acceleration, but I do care about the fact that 
> the time on 
> > my virtual NetBSD box get completely screwed up. Running 
> ntpd doesn't 
> > help at all.
> 
> Did you try turning on Linux emulation in the NetBSD guest 
> and trying the Linux VMWare tools. I believe this is what 
> FreeBSD does when it's a guest. Examine the relevant ports 
> (vmware-guestd, linux-vmware-toolbox or whatever) under FreeBSD.

Haven't done that at yet. Will try it next.

> 
> > 2. (I think), VMWare acts like I have a 10Mbps networking 
> card, even 
> > though I have a 100Mbps card. This slows down my file 
> transfer speed 
> > more than it needs to....
> 
> Have you verified this analytically, or are you just 
> hypothesizing due to the fact that VMWare emulates an AMD PCNet card?

Got this from their messages, but on measuring the speed of transfer,
I do see rates faster than 2MBps (16Mbps), so maybe they do use
the interface at the best speed they can get out of it.

> 
> - Julian
> 
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Thanks for your help,
Regards,
Ambarish

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