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Re: Using NetBSD and X inside a VMWare VM



About this, is there any way to boost the performance of a NetBSD
machine inside VMware? [I notice my NetBSD clock is slower than the
host clock]


On 20/10/2008, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 2008/10/20 Charles L. Nelson <charles%embsyspro.com@localhost>:
>> Has anyone been successful at being able to consistently use NetBSD and X
>> inside a VMWare VM.  NetBSD runs well within the VMWare VM until I try to
>> use X.  Sometimes it works but most of the time it doesn't.
>
> All the time.
>
> I use the free VMWare server 1.0x and 2.0; under the latter I have
> some 5 NetBSD VMs, I think one of these is full time running X.
>
> http://www.spidersweb.co.uk/~ci/vmware2-netbsd.png is a screengrab of
> my laptop running Vista, VPN connected to a server running VMWare
> server 2.0 and a console of a NetBSD i386 4.99.72 m/c (for some weird
> reason running mwm...).
>
> On a similar note, I can't get OpenBSD to run X inside VirtualBox...
> (NetBSD doesn't run at all under NetBSD at this stage, as far as my
> tests are concerned).
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Charles L. Nelson
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Chavdar Ivanov
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