From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 11:06:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91ABA16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:06:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 9.hellooperator.net (cpc3-cdif2-3-0-cust202.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.32.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F5843D45 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:06:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rasputin@hellooperator.net) Received: from rasputin by 9.hellooperator.net with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BnEvF-0005tz-Va; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:06:05 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:06:05 +0100 From: Dick Davies To: Ben Paley Message-ID: <20040721110605.GD7738@lb.tenfour> References: <200407202209.14039.ben@spooty.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407202209.14039.ben@spooty.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: Rasputin cc: FreeBSD Questions list Subject: Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dick Davies List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:06:07 -0000 * Ben Paley [0729 22:29]: > Hello everybody, > > If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for > reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! > > I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: > > bash-2.05b$ uname -a > FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 > 07:07:08 BST 2004 root@potato.hogsedge.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO > i386 > bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware > vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window I've had it working under NetBSD before now, a treat. But CURRENT might actually be relevant, since it uses a few kernel modules - I'd guess 5.x has some API changes from 4.X > For a while I was getting some sort of network error: vmware would start as > long as all the network stuff was disabled, but if I tried to have a > host-only connection (I haven't even bothered trying a bridged connection) it > wouldn't run (that is, vmware itself would run fine, but the virtual machine > wouldn't boot, and I'd get an error message about networking - sorry I didn't > make a note of it). Try bridged? and if you don't make a note of the error, people aren't going to waste their time helping you as a rule, so do that too. > portupgrade -fR vmware3 > > and after a lot of waiting around I tried again: now I get a complete crash > (can't even change to another terminal and kill x) whenever I try to start > vmware. sod portupgrade - manually pkg_delete all the vmware crap, then pkg_add it. > On boot, I get this message: > > kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or > directory > -bash-2.05b# locate vmnet.ko > /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko Is the file actually there - what does ls say? -- "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns