Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:02:27 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Update vmware port: testers required Message-ID: <v0421012eb581c72b1d57@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000629081758.B331@jupiter.delta.ny.us> References: <20000616084248.A3531@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <20000628193631.A6615@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <861z1h9cu5.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000629081758.B331@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
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At 8:17 AM -0400 6/29/00, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: >On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:16:18PM +0900, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote: > > > > New bridging code for vmnet driver have to be work at 4.0-Release. > > > But I want some assistance to test that code. > > > > I'd like to help you with the test, however, could you update your > > VMware version to 2.0.1 release (Build 570) first? > >Done. Okay. With this newer port I seem to be working ok. I had a few odd problems, but those may have been my fault. For instance, I managed to do the linux install with the wrong video card (just a screwup on my part). So, at the moment I can't get into X, but the bridged network support does seem to be working right. This is excellent. I am testing this on release 4.0-2000.0625-STABLE, on hardware which is a dual-CPU 650 MHz P3 system, 256meg of RAM. Right now I'm testing on virtual disks, as that seemed the safest. When I start the virtual machine, vmware warns me that I'm running on a "remote file system", which may slow things down. Is that just because it's seeing a native freebsd filesystem instead of a native linux (ext2fs) filesystem? Should I compile ext2fs support in my system, reformat a slice to ext2fs (using linux), mount that under freebsd, and then create my virtual disks there? Also, some of the comments in README.FreeBSD need a little updating. For instance, there is no longer a need to install the separate linuxproc.tar.gz port, since that's now in the linproc module. It would be particularly nice if it mentioned WHAT someone needs to do if they don't have linproc mounted. It's simple once you know where to look, but it can take awhile to find the right inf. Also, the README.FreeBSD still says that the port only supports 'Host only' networking. Is there much chance that this could be improved to support multiple guest OS's running at the same time? (in different vmware processes, of course). The more OS's I can run on the one machine, the easier life gets when testing certain changes. Also, the emulators/rtc port seems a little odd. It does not seem to have the same targets as other ports, or work in quite the same way. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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