From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 18:29:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: emulation@FreeBSD.org 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 ECFB316A41F for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:29:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ntai@smartfruit.com) Received: from ficus.frogspace.net (ficus.frogspace.net [64.6.237.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74EF43D46 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:29:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ntai@smartfruit.com) Received: from gate.abinitio.com ([65.170.40.132] helo=[10.50.21.12]) by ficus.frogspace.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.44) id 1E2YrJ-0002o7-Mo for emulation@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:29:53 -0700 Message-ID: <42F8F61D.1080706@smartfruit.com> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:29:49 -0400 From: Naoyuki Tai User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 65.170.40.132 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ntai@smartfruit.com Cc: Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 Release + VMware3 working X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:29:53 -0000 Hi, As I upgraded my server from 4.11 to 5.4, I reinstalled VMware3. Here is the step I had to take. 1. Add kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf 2. Add AIO support in kernel, and reboot. 3. Have all the necessary files in /usr/ports/distfiles and make install 4. Update /usr/X11R6/lib/vmware/bin/vmware using vmware-any-any-update42 5. Set up /usr/X11R6/etc/vmware/config Tada! And, it's up and ruuning now. I shoudl mention that, I do not use any devices other than disk and ethernet, and, that's all I need. No sound, no usb, no video, no floppy. I used ISO image for the installation of RedHat 9 on it. Of all the installations of VMware I have done before, this one was the easiest. Since all other messages were "it does not work.", it's probably a fresh change to know that it's working for a person. -- Naoyuki "Tai" Tai, ntai a t smartfruit d o t com