On patching usplash, boot times and Live CD

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On 5/14/06, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > VMware, normal boot: 38.7 seconds
> > VMware, textless boot: 21.7 seconds
> > Savings: 17 seconds, 44% of boottime
>
> Either VMware has a really, really poor VGA implementation (which I
> don't recall from past experience with it, though it's been a while
> since I used it) or, more likely, you're using a file-based disk image,
> and on the second boot, your disk image was mostly cached to RAM in the
> host system, reducing disk seeks.
>

I've been running a number of tests on VMWare since yesterday and believe
me, the VGA is *slow*. If you enable the framebuffer, you can actually see
the cursor drawing the screen pretty much as a 9600 teletype. Amazingly
slow. It only goes faster after you install VMWare tools (then it becomes
usable).

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