From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 7:36:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sagan.beanstalk.net (sagan.beanstalk.net [12.162.34.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371B437B417 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from fcoffice.ptfd.org (unverified [12.162.35.98]) by sagan.beanstalk.net (Vircom SMTPRS 4.2.181) with SMTP id ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:38:24 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael W.Holdeman Organization: PTFD To: "Travis L. Leuthauser" Subject: Re: VMWare2vs Win4Lin(BSD) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:35:29 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: Cc: FreeBSD Questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0203211035290A.13992@fcoffice.ptfd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well after finally getting everything squared away for VM, VMware has informed me that there are no evaluation licenses available for 2.0,. I guess with no port for 3.0 yet, that kinda is that! guess its time to research Win4Lin a little more. Anyone interested in this?? On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:37, you wrote: > Take a look at the man page for linprocfs.. that should help you out if I > remember correctly > > man 5 linprocfs > > -Travis > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael > W.Holdeman > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:33 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Cc: ports@freebsd.org > Subject: VMWare2 > > > Upon installing vmware 2 from teh ports, everything seemed to go fine > however > when I try to run it as a user I get a complaint about linux procfs not > mounted, when I use /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware it starts but gives > me errors about not being able to execute the vmware workstation executable > file, and module 10 initialization succeeded.. Starts anyway, but I'm > unable to load a guest OS as when trying to hit power on I get could not > open /proc/cpuinfo. > > I tried but did not have a linproc port in teh ports collection. So I got > th > elinprocfs.tar.gz from teh same ftp as teh vmware (mindspring ... ...) and > placed it in teh ports/emulators, tree. When running make ioon it I get > complaints that it is too old, and need to run pkg instead? > > My system is setup with Linux_compatibility=yes in rc.conf. > > > Any help would be appreciated > > Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message