DragonFly hung up in Vmware

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Mon Mar 1 13:37:10 PST 2004


Matthew Dillon wrote:

:> CVS tree but if left for a few minutes then the console session 
:> "freezes" whereas remote sessions via SSH work as expected.
:> 
:> Also occasionally the SSH sessions show odd problems like the screen 
:> temporarily freezing and key strokes being displayed "one behind the 
:> last typed one", eg. on typing AB only A is visible and on typing ABC 
:> only AB is visible.
:> 
:> The output of "ls" is sometimes similarly effected with the display 
:> "freezing" until return is hit.
:> 
:> -- Steve

    The network and serial port one-behind-the-other keystroke issue occured
    when I did the systimer changes.  I was not handling delayed software 
    interrupts, but I fixed that a few wekks ago.  The current VMWare issue
    is a big unknown.
>

	Hmmph, OK, it seems most of the people having these VMWare
	problems are running XP as the host operating system.  I will
	get hold of it and at the least, I will see if it happens with
	my configuration on XP professional.
	Give me a week or so please and hang in there.

		-Hiten
		Hiten Pandya (hmp at xxxxxxxxxxxxx)





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