From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 15:57:41 2006 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: freebsd-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 CE6C616A420 for <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org>; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:57:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (gndrsh.dnsmgr.net [205.238.40.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AFCE43D46 for <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org>; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:57:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA80840; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:57:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Message-Id: <200601261557.HAA80840@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20060126154454.GA89025@gvr.gvr.org> from Guido van Rooij at "Jan 26, 2006 04:44:54 pm" To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:57:17 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: orlando@break.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems <freebsd-emulation.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation>, <mailto:freebsd-emulation-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-emulation-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation>, <mailto:freebsd-emulation-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:57:42 -0000 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