From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Aug 7 17:17:34 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 CE9E837B5C0 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.83]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000808001723.PZDM26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 01:17:23 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA00404; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 01:17:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 01:17:05 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? Message-ID: <20000808011705.A288@parish> References: <200007271242.IAA16126@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM> <20000805150815.C254@parish> <200008052359.TAA00434@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <20000806014635.A255@parish> <20000806084822.A282@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <20000806164837.A254@parish> <20000806232722.B3251@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <20000807175917.A254@parish> <20000807191157.A318@jupiter.delta.ny.us> 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: <20000807191157.A318@jupiter.delta.ny.us>; from vsilyaev@mindspring.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 07:11:57PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 07:11:57PM -0400, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:59:17PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > > > It's a K6-233 (original K6, not a -2 or -3) > > > > > > > > > > I don't know. I personally don't have experience with new > > > > > AMD's processors. Try to update BIOS on motherboard to > > > > > latest one, and try to compile kernel without k6_mem.c file > > > > > (just change it to dummy one with zero length). > > > > > > > > > > > > > That was it! I built a new kernel and now vmware starts :) > > > What's exactly? Kernel recompiling with fresh source code, or truncating > > > k6_mem file? > > > > > > > Sorry, I meant truncating k6_mem.c. > Could I ask you to return back k6_mem.c file, recompile kernel and start > again vmware. In the case if vmware will hang, that's mean pretty bad news, > and it _should_ be included in readme file. Also if vmware will hang, I like > to know what 'sysctl hw.model' said on your box. > OK, I've copied back k6_mem.c and re-built my kernel and vmware works fine :) Strange! but I have cvsup'd since the kernel I was originally using (built July 20). Maybe something else has changed (in the kernel) that has fixed this. Anyway it does not really matter now, vmware works. # sysctl hw.model hw.model: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions > -- > Vladimir > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 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