From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon May 6 21:17:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.sr.se [134.25.0.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7026D37B405 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 21:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from honken.sr.se (honken.sr.se [134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g474HCN35677; Tue, 7 May 2002 06:17:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA71565; Tue, 7 May 2002 06:17:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from root@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g474HC611753; Tue, 7 May 2002 06:17:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.1av) id g474H9R11745; Tue, 7 May 2002 06:17:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 06:17:09 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Kenneth Culver Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware2 Message-ID: <20020507061708.A11711@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <20020506130324.B9112@sr.se> <20020506162256.T28532-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020506162256.T28532-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:24:00PM -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:24:00PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > No, if I have what you're talking about right, then it treats a floppy > image as the actual floppy and installs from there... I'm not really sure > what you're talking about though... (I don't remember anything like that > with my installation of vmware) No, it was the CD image I'm talking about. Look at this. 5$ sudo make ===> Extracting for vmware-tools-3.0.0.1455 >> No MD5 checksum file. ===> vmware-tools-3.0.0.1455 depends on shared library: c.3 - found ===> vmware-tools-3.0.0.1455 depends on shared library: X11.6 - found ======================================================================== Choose "Settings" -> "VMware Tools Install..." from the Wrokstation menu to connect the VM's CD-ROM drive temporarily to installation CD image. ======================================================================== This port mounts /dev/acd0c to /mnt. Are you ready? [Y/n]: y /bin/mkdir -p /mnt /sbin/umount /mnt 2>&1 >/dev/null umount: /mnt: not currently mounted *** Error code 1 (ignored) /sbin/umount /dev/acd0c 2>&1 >/dev/null umount: /dev/acd0c: not currently mounted *** Error code 1 (ignored) /sbin/mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /mnt cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-tools. > > Ken > > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:20:34AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > you need to mount linprocfs... first remove anything you put in > > > /usr/compat/linux/proc, then > > > > > > mount -t linprocfs /proc /usr/compat/linux/proc > > > > > > That's it! > > > > Worked of course, immediately. :) What doesn't work though is the > > toolkit-installation. It says it opens a connection so that the cdrom > > will be (virtually I guess) used as the device for installation. > > However, the system says the resource is occupied. Any solutions to > > this? > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > > > > > > Hello! I searched the archives, and there seems to be nothing concerning > > > > vmware since 1 year back, and nothing answered my question. So here we > > > > go. > > > > > > > > I just installed vmware2 on my new 4.5-STABLE > > > > > > > > When running vmware it complained about the linprocfs not being mounted. > > > > So I just created the files and directorys described in the linprocfs > > > > man page. To no help though, since when starting vmware I get an error > > > > > > > > Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file. > > > > Possibly an installation error? > > > > Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file. > > > > Possibly an installation error? > > > > Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file. > > > > Possibly an installation error? > > > > Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file. > > > > Possibly an installation error? > > > > Module 10 initialization succeeded. > > > > > > > > I press OK on that one and gets the WMware Workstation dialog for > > > > setting up a new system. If I choose "Run the Configuration Wizard." I > > > > get the following error: > > > > > > > > Error opening /proc/meminfo: > > > > child process exited abnormally > > > > > > > > So how do I proceed from here? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > __o > > > > regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ > > > > email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > __o > > regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ > > email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message