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.)

> 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.

> 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?

- Julian

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