Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:41:39 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow <andy@spadger.best.vwh.net> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare questions/issues? Message-ID: <20050710014139.AF0C8899@spadger.best.vwh.net>
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Hi, Has anyone else noticed the following, or is it just me? I recently re-installed VMWare2 and it broke. VMware 2 needs the vmware-any-any-update patch to avoid the AIO VMWare panic loop. However, after patching the VMWare binary with the latest vmware-any-any-update92, it complains to the effect that "0 is less than the required minimum of 32MB for host memory"... Going into the Configuration Editor indeed shows zero bytes host memory detected. Not good. Patching out the MEM-related function calls from the patch1142() function in update.c, re-installing and using the patched patch installer seems to fix the immediate problem - all host memory is detected. However, things are still not right. Sometimes VMware starts up perfectly and runs for hours with no issues; most times, powering up the VM causes an instant hard lock of the machine with the hard drive light locked on solid. I don't recall the older vmware-any-any-update patch doing this, but can only find v92 now. Any ideas as to what else might in the patch set might be incompatible/unnecesary with linux_base-8-8.0.6? There's really not a lot of debugging available - no log entries anywhere, can't break to kernel debugger, nothing. Also, what's the trick to getting networking functional with VMWare3? Neither bridged nor host-only mode seems to work for me - packets go out, but nothing ever comes back in - the exact same setup/inputs to the port works as expected/as it always did with VMWare2... This is all recent UP 4.11-STABLE with linux_base-8-8.0_6. Any help appreciated - this sucks greatly, I paid full-price for VMWare and it's pretty much been bullet-proof for years. I wish OpenOffice cut it for me, but it doesn't. If a send-pr would be helpful, I'd be happy to oblige. <Me off to play with the KQEMU kernel module...> Cheers, Andy
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