Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 06:17:09 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware2 Message-ID: <20020507061708.A11711@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <20020506162256.T28532-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:24:00PM -0400 References: <20020506130324.B9112@sr.se> <20020506162256.T28532-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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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 ---- (_)/ (_)
> > > >
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> > > >
> > >
> >
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> >
> >
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