From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Aug 5 7: 8:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A71F37B627 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 07:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.226]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000805140823.ZWBP26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 15:08:23 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00445; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 15:08:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 15:08:15 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Robert Withrow Cc: John Reynolds , emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? Message-ID: <20000805150815.C254@parish> References: <200007271242.IAA16126@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200007271242.IAA16126@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM>; from bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:42:30AM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:42:30AM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote: > Thanks for the info. Actually, late last night I actually flopped in > the correct direction (probably accidentally). I'll note where your > stuff differs from mine: > > :- First off, is the NT/BSD boot disk an IDE disk? I hope so. Even VMware > :- themselves say booting a VM from scsi is at best experimental. I would > :- seriously doubt it would work under FreeBSD, but maybe > > It's scsi, and it seems to work. > I've been following this thread and learnt quite a bit from it, thanks guys, however I *still* can't get vmware to run :( It starts up but as soon as I click the Power On button the vmware window turns black and the whole machine locks solid (no keyboard or mouse response, and the desktop clock and xtimer stop) and after ~15 secs the machine spontaneously reboots (which is a PITA as it fsck's the disks every time). There is no clue in the vmware log, or /var/adm/messages, as to the cause. I've tried using a virtual disk and (currently) a plain disk (SCSI). I've set up with no CD-ROM and floppy (to minimize possible causes) but still it won't run. I originally built it with the latest port (Makefile rev 1.20) but in another thread here it implied/suggested that the previous Makefile (rev 1.19) may be better, so I grabbed that and tried it - no different. Can anyone shed any light on the cause of these crashes? Also, I have no .nvram file. Is it supposed to be created by hand? If so, what goes in it? # uname -a FreeBSD parish 4.1-RC FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: Thu Jul 20 20:54:53 BST 2000 root@parish:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARISH i386 # cat win95.{cfg,hba} #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware config.version = 2 # No cdrom installed # Disk Drive Info scsi0:0.present = TRUE scsi0:0.deviceType = "plainDisk" scsi0:0.fileName = "win95.hba" scsi0.present = TRUE # No floppy installed floppy0.present = FALSE # No networking installed # Memory size memsize = 32 # Nvram nvram = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.nvram # Log file log.fileName = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.log # Hints guestOS = win95 DRIVETYPE scsi CYLINDERS 527 HEADS 255 SECTORS 63 ACCESS "disk.mbr" 0 63 ACCESS "/dev/rda0s1" 63 1044162 ACCESS "/dev/null" 1044225 7422030 -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message