[Fwd: [Bug 817] New: DMX includes <linux/input.h> onnon-Linuxplatforms]

[Roland Mainz]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:47:51AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > For x86 platforms I may have a better solution: We could simply fetch a
> > x86 machine with >=1GHz, >=1GB memory, install VMware on it and then can
> > run MANY MANY VMware VMs on it, - one for Solaris2.8/x86, one for
> > Solaris 2.9/x86, one for SuSE Linux, one for Debian Linux, one for
> > NetBSD, one for FreeBSD and there is still memory left for more VMs.
> > And we would be able to use the same machine for building binaries for
> > these platforms, too... :)
> 
> I have an AthlonXP 2400+ (raw clock 2GHz), and VMware is really quite
> slow on it - my Windows sessions crawl.

Please check your configuration. We are running VMware "servers" here
(to be exact: VMware Workstation on headless AMD Athlon machines) with
up to 8 VMs (we could do more per server - but the network is usually
the bottleneck since we don't have everywhere 1Gbit and if four users
share one 100baseT pipe it may quickly get saturated if everyone runs
realplayer) in parallel which provide windows services (e.g. WinNT4.0,
Win2000, WinXP) and various other OSes (Solaris x86, Linux/x86 etc.) to
our Sun machines. Works perfectly.

BTW: Win95/Win98/WinME and MS-DOS applications are slow as snails
because the underlying "OS" doesn't call "HLT" when being idle. And
don't forget to install the Vmware Tools and VMWare VGA driver on the
Windows OSes.

> I wouldn't want to be trying to
> build the monolithic tree under that, really.

I am doing this already with SuSE 8.2 as host OS and SuSE9.1/Solaris9 as
guest OSes and don't have performace problems on my laptop. Mozilla
debug builds within the VM may even be faster than running natively on
the host OS (because they are I/O-bound, not CPU-bound - the VMware VM
caches disk I/O which boots performace in such scenarios a lot (WARNING:
If the host crashes or gets turned OFF a logging filesystem within the
guest OS is of little use... in cases where it is important to gurantee
filesystem consistency it is better to run the critical stuff on a NFS
filesystem)) ... :)

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Bye,
Roland

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