From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Nov 27 0:30: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from yog-sothoth.sgi.com (unknown [192.48.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACFBD37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgiger.munich.sgi.com (sgiger.munich.sgi.com [144.253.192.2]) by yog-sothoth.sgi.com (980305.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam-europe) via SMTP id JAA5619460; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:29:29 +0100 (CET) mail_from (gwk@sgi.com) Received: from cuckoo.munich.sgi.com (cuckoo.munich.sgi.com [144.253.192.109]) by sgiger.munich.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA18539; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:29:20 +0100 Received: from sgi.com by cuckoo.munich.sgi.com via ESMTP (980427.SGI.8.8.8/911001.SGI) id JAA80589; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:29:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3A03C8D9.670998CE@sgi.com> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:29:13 +0100 From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergio Macedo Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vmware2 on 4.1-RELEASE References: <20001126180819.D19849@tmp.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sergio Macedo wrote: > Greetings. > [...] > > I believe the problem is in the physical disk handling functions because > if I set it up to use a virtual disk, I'm at least able to boot the virtual > machine with a W95 floppy. However, the floppy doesn't finish the boot. > It gets frozen just after the Windows copyright message.... I believe you must first install Windows in a virtual disk of your VM, and then setup access to your Windows hard disk partitions. At least that is what worked for me. Afaik, you cannot use the same boot partition for native Windows and Windows in a VM. I am using 4.1-RELEASE and vmware2 straight from the ports. Regards, Georg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message