Sorry for the self-reply, but I thought of one more detail that may be useful:
After the system is installed, if I boot into failsafe, the long pause does not occur. Steve Steven Stallion wrote: > All, > > For quite some time now, I have run snv builds through VMware > Workstation 5 & 6 without any problems. > > Lately, I've been using VMware Fusion 1.1 (Stable) on my MacBook Pro. I > have noticed some rather odd behavior: > > After the kernel banner (and subsequent console font change), there is a > very long (and inconsistent) pause which can take anywhere from 5 to 15 > minutes; during this time a ridiculous amount of processor time is taken > up on both cores (the VM is currently configured for 2 virtual > processors). Once the system is fully booted, it is business as usual - > except for the long wait, and a piping hot laptop ;) > > The strange thing is, this behavior is not present during installation, > only after the system has been installed and rebooted. I have tried > numerous configuration options in VMware, including forcing 32bit > behavior, using a single virtual processor, and tweaking dma defaults in > eeprom in the event this could be some odd virtual controller issue - > still no luck! > > Solaris 10 8/07 runs like a charm with the same VM configuration. > > Any Fusion users out there notice similar behavior? Anyone have any > ideas or tips on how I could resolve this issue? > > Thanks in Advance, > > Steve > -- Yet magic and hierarchy arise from the same source, and this source has a null pointer. Reference the NULL within NULL, it is the gateway to all wizardry. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
