Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:53:50 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: recommendations on beginner configuration of VMware (raw/plain/virutal) Message-ID: <14688.39662.888184.171821@whale.home-net>
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hello, I'm planning on installing FreeBSD 4-STABLE this weekend with the goal of being able to run VMware eventually (mostly so the wife can access her "needed" Windows crap and not have to reboot). I've read through the port's README.FreeBSD files as well as Hints.FreeBSD. They seem to make general sense. How "up-to-date" are these files? It seems like there is some stale information there (I am subscribed to -emulation and have seen recent stuff about the bridging network support, etc. go by). Anyway, I find myself still confused as to how to proceed w.r.t. disks. I have a 20Gb IDE drive being unused in my system which I bought primarily for VMware (I had read that it didn't like scsi disks as well as IDE). I want to understand how "best" to carve this disk up so that I don't have to do it again in the future. My plans for this disk are: o / partition to boot FreeBSD o large chunk of it dedicated to MP3s :) o VMware o chunk for dual-booting into Win98 (just in case VMware doesn't support something my wife needs--like access to her favorite scanner progie--scanner is scsi ...) I'm weary about making VMware work with the actual installation of win98 until I'm more familiar with everything (I've read about the hardware configurations, etc., and it seems to be more complicated than a beginner with VMware should deal with, yes?). What do people recommend using? What are the performance trade-offs for using the virtual, plain, or raw disks? Also, if I choose the "plain disk," I infer from my reading that this is just a slice under FreeBSD, i.e. /dev/rad0s1. What filesystem should be on this slice? Should it be newfs'ed then VMware writes to it "natively" or should the whole slice be formatted with Win98 FAT? Does anybody have any URLs with pointers for setting up and/or maintaining VMware on FreeBSD (besides Vladimir's website)? Thanks for any information! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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