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[ On Thursday, July 27, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: ]
> 
> Yes, it's pretty much the same problem -- sysinstall thinks the device
> isn't there if it can't open it.  In fact, the problem is just that you
> don't have a disk in it.
> 
> I'm sure other people have the same problem, since the cd(4) driver acts
> the same way for any drive when there is no media present.

could this be changed maybe with a sysctl variable or something, or is there a
fundamental reason why it "should" work this way?

> There may be a way to do something different, but you'd have to look into
> the 'vmmon' module to figure it out.
> 
> What is the vmmon module, anyway?  Where is the source?  (I don't know much
> about vmware.)

 http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/

vmmon-freebsd-0.97-b1.tar.gz is the "latest" that the port fetches. This is
freebsd-only code plus a patch for the vmmon code from VMware.

So far, I'm pretty happy with it--I need to squash a few more bugs and figure
a few more things out about it, but they might actually get my $$$ for this
one ;-)

-Jr

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