From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 17:49:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D2616A4CE for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:49:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pluto.hedeland.org (1-1-1-13a.mal.sth.bostream.se [82.182.84.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5F343D53 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:49:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Received: from pluto.hedeland.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pluto.hedeland.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0VHn9VT014860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:49:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from per@pluto.hedeland.org) Received: (from per@localhost) by pluto.hedeland.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0VHn9db014859; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:49:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from per) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:49:09 +0100 (CET) From: Per Hedeland Message-Id: <200501311749.j0VHn9db014859@pluto.hedeland.org> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, simon.zekar@literal.si In-Reply-To: <41FE2620.7010105@literal.si> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 127.0.0.1 Subject: Re: Vmware3 + FreeBSD 5.3 or 4.11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:49:12 -0000 Simon Žekar 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