From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Jul 30 9:46: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from bastuba.partitur.se (bastuba.partitur.se [193.219.246.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E26437B677 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from stordatan.palle.se (c193.150.250.87.cm-upc.chello.se [193.150.250.87]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA20990; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:45:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from partitur.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stordatan.palle.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01289; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:45:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <39845BB8.EAA54B58@partitur.se> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:45:44 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: sv, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: A G F Keahan Cc: John Reynolds , emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some VMware progress. More questions (was Re: latest VMware port dumping core. ) References: <14716.26696.719757.828831@hip186.ch.intel.com> <200007250002.UAA00521@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <14717.14343.423191.404139@whale.home-net> <397D5A03.74EC2582@freenet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A G F Keahan wrote: {snip...] > VMWare creates a > large file in /tmp (slightly larger than the amount of RAM you > specified), which you can't see because it's unlink()ed. You could try > symlinking /tmp to /var/tmp or another location that has more disk > space, and see if the problem persists. Better still, add this to the /usr/local/bin/vmware shell script: TMPDIR=/var/tmp export TMPDIR This is more or less a must, especially if you have a small root partition or you are using mfs_mount for /tmp. -- Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message