Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

So, yesterday I installed VMWare Workstation that’s just been released in a final 5th version. After I got it up and running I tried to install FreeBSD in it, and it just worked. On top of that it was fast, much faster than the equivalent Virtual PC from Microsoft. Virtual PC uses 100% of my CPU when the VM is running, with VMWare it scaled depending on the load of the VM. Much nicer, and much snappier.

So I was pretty happy, and had planned that I would fiddle around with FreeBSD and jails today. No such luck! As I booted up my laptop, I quickly noticed that the machine had no network connectiviety at all. The entire network sub system was just smashed! I’ve experienced this before with the Cisco VPN Client used on Campus. The problem seems to be that some applications such as Cisco VPN and VMWare extends the network layer in Windows XP (attributed by the fact that new devices appear in Network Connections), and this simply clashes with SP2. But not with a normal XP slipstreamed with SP2, only with a XP that has been installed with SP2 later on (such as my laptop).

But boy, does it suck!

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