From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 20 14:29:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from vbook.express.ru (vbook.nc.express.ru [212.24.37.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1BD37B41A for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:29:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from vova by vbook.express.ru with local (Exim 3.31 #2) id 166IYu-0000Wv-00; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:36:12 +0300 From: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15354.52427.689654.61679@vbook.express.ru> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:36:11 +0300 To: hm@hcs.de Cc: "Georg-W. Koltermann" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: vmware fails on -current In-Reply-To: <20011120194718.DBAEA3B9@hcswork.hcs.de> References: <20011120194718.DBAEA3B9@hcswork.hcs.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hellmuth Michaelis writes: > Today i got it to compile and run: > > - apply the patch from Munehiro Matsuda to hostif.c, this makes the vmware2 > port compile under -current as of today > > - as described above, use /dev/vmnet1 instead of /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh > > - replace /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 with a symlink to /dev/vmnet1 > (perhaps the previous step would be unnecessary by this one) > > After this, vmware comes up and then complains about not able to use > /dev/rtc (/dev/rtc is present in /compat/linux and is kld-loaded) but > then continues to start up and runs. > > One thing which looks funny to me is this that the vmnet1 device files > have different minor numbers: > > /root ll /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK /dev/vmnet1 > crw------- 1 root wheel 149, 0x00800001 Nov 20 18:50 /dev/vmnet1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 149, 0x00010001 Nov 20 18:42 /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK > > (where /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK is from the vmware2 port install > and moved from vmnet1 to vmnet1-BAK before the new symlink was made). After all, after block disk devices was removed wmvare stops support plain disks :(. Do anybody have solution for it ? > hellmuth > -- > Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 > HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 > Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de > D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de -- TSB Russian Express, Moscow Vladimir B. Grebenschikov, vova@express.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message