Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:49:09 +0100 (CET) From: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, simon.zekar@literal.si Subject: Re: Vmware3 + FreeBSD 5.3 or 4.11 Message-ID: <200501311749.j0VHn9db014859@pluto.hedeland.org> In-Reply-To: <41FE2620.7010105@literal.si>
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Simon Žekar <simon.zekar@literal.si> wrote: > >I'm wondering, does anyone have a working and relatively stable >configuration running vmware3 on FreeBSD 5.3 or maybe 4.11 ? I'm unable >set it up on both versions, but it worked great on 4.9. Well, I have two 5.3-RELEASE boxes running vmware3 acceptably stable, though with some "issues": Box 1 required that I built a kernel w/o 'device apic' - with apic in, my box didn't quite freeze, but my mouse became unusable and the cpu usage counters stopped running - giving vmstat output like: procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad4 cd0 in sy cs us sy id ... 2 1 0 444208 791176 1 0 0 0 2 0 28 0 244 937 548 0 0 0 Furthermore, when built from an up-to-date ports tree (i.e. using linux_base-8) as of three weeks ago, it would segfault immediately on startup if run by a normal user, while it worked fine for root. I backed down to the ports tree that came with 5.3-RELEASE, and built from that it now works perfectly fine. Box 2 had neither of those problems, i.e. vmware3 works with device apic in the kernel and built from an up-to-date (as of three weeks ago) ports three - however (only) on exit from vmware I get a complaint about aio: VMware Workstation Unrecoverable error: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712 Please request support and include the contents of the log file: ... Since it doesn't seem to affect operations, I've just ignored it - I don't run vmware much on this box though, so it's possible that there are nasty problems lurking there, and I just haven't seen them... --Per Hedeland
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