Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:31:31 -0700 From: "H Raghav" <hraghav.devel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare 3 port on FreeBSD 7 STABLE Message-ID: <7c299c6c0808151631g5bee92eay6038e89da6b8a348@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi: I am trying to run VMware 3 port from /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3 on FreeBSD 7.0 STABLE. I did a make install from the /usr/ports as root and the build and install went fine. It installed Linux Base FC4 and then installed VMWare 3. However, whenever I try to startup vmware, I get an error that /dev/vmmon cannot be found. The error is: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. Failed to initialize monitor device. Linprocfs is mounted on /compat/linux/proc. I also ran the /usr/local/rc.d/vmware.sh start and it reported that all modules are already loaded. kldstat reveals that vmmon_smp.ko is indeed loaded. Based on some research, I found this issue reported in FreeBSD 5.4; I believe the same is at work here. I am running on a DELL SMP hardware (DELL Precision 530 Workstation). http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2005-May/012725.html Any way to fix this issue in FreeBSD 7? Is it due to the SMP hardware? Can I make VMWare belive that it is running on Uniprocessor hardware?
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