Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:43:15 -0400 From: mwhalen@uucom.com To: mike ryan <msr@elision.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, larse@ISI.EDU, joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Subject: Re: vmware2 and xfree86-4.0.1 Message-ID: <200007141843.OAA05107@tangerine.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: Message from mike ryan <msr@elision.org> of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:26:35 EDT." <20000713122635.A67937@medianstrip.net>
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I think I heard mike ryan say: >On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:44:17AM -0400, Matthew Whalen wrote: >> >> I have a new machine that I'm trying to configure. It's very similar >> to my regular home machine (PIII 700 vs K7 700). They both run >> 4.0-stable (home was build last about 1 month ago, new machine yesterday). >> I have xf86 4 on this new machine, and 3 at home. >> >> My vmware on the new machine dies cathing with a SIGSEGV and "Abort trap" >> being printed to the screen. I know that vmware doesn't officially support >> XF86 4, but this doesn't really sound a lot like an Xserver problem >> to me. There isn't much in the vmware log to note. Has anyone tried >> vmware2 with XF86 4 yet? If so, did you get the same result? Is there >> something else going on? > >i've had the same result. i'm also running 4.0-stable built within >the last few days and xfree86 4.0.1, on a sony vaio z505hs laptop. > >on my system at least, there appears to be a correlation with disk >modes -- virtual machines configured with raw disks abort on boot, >virtual machines with virtual disks work fine. Thank you. This fixed the problem. I wonder why a new release of X would break disk access... I guess I'll wait a while before upgrading at home since I have my virtual machine installed on a raw disk partition so that I could boot NT >ick< if I wanted to outside of VMware. -matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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