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Subject: Re: VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4
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And hello Guido, been many years!

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:10:29AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > I have seen many reports of problems, and a few suggested
> > work arounds, which I tried, but no one saying they have vmware3
> > running correctly on either 4.11 or 5.4 systems.  Of cource
> > you never hear about what works, only about what is broken :-(.
> > 
> 
> Sorry about that ;-()
> 
> > I have managed to get it running here by going back to the
> > old linux_base-7.1.    I am in the process of doing further
> > regression testing to find out exactly when it broke, it
> > was some time between linux_base-7.1 and linux_base-8.8.
> 
> I have the following running config:
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Sep 22 10:42 /var/db/pkg/linux_base-8-8.0_4/

Okay, thats a big help, as I started at -8-8.0_10, I can try building
from scratch at this version and see what I end up with.

> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  9 17:07 /var/db/pkg/vmware3-3.2.1.2242_10,1/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 23  2004 /var/db/pkg/rtc-2004.02.24.1_4/
> 
> On:
> FreeBSD beck.gvr.org 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #8: Thu Apr  7 21:44:31 CEST 2005     guido@beck.gvr.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MOUSE  i386
> 
> I only run w2k as guest-os.

Do you have any ethernet devices configured?  or cdrom devices?
I think the snag come up when your using these.
The code does kinda work, but you well get panics on shutdown.
Also the configure wizard is broken due to df -T breakage
caused by the new linuxlator

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 freebsd@freebsd.org