<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>With the discussion of using VMware to help with the QA
process, I felt I should speak up and add my experience over the past week
getting a fc2 and fc3 vm going.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The biggest problem I came across was that I had to
recompile the fc2 and fc3 kernels to reduce the HZ setting in
include/asm-i386/params.h from 1000 to 100. At 1000, the VMs were too slow
to do any real work. The vmware discussion forums were great in pointing
out that was the problem with the slowness. I'm running my VMs on ESX
Server 2.5.2, so I don't know if the latest Server beta or VMWare workstation
5.5 are any better. But someone does put out pre-made VMWare images
to help with QA, those images probably need a 100 HZ kernel in
them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Donald</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>