From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 23 21:51:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BE137B4CF for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiliweld.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id VAA21913; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:51:29 -0800 Message-ID: <3A1E015F.5588E6E5@wiliweld.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:49:19 -0800 From: Bill Schoolcraft Organization: " UNIX, A Way of Life !!! " X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim McMillen Cc: Krzysztof Parzyszek , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware for FreeBSD ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim McMillen wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Krzysztof Parzyszek wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:24:03PM -0500, Tim McMillen wrote: > > > I can get it running, but not well. > > I got it running and it runs pretty well. I have Windows NT4 inside of > > it. Networking (host only) works with no problems. I have a local > > network which is natd'ed, so NT can see the outside world. I had some > > trouble with sound from NT. Besides that and it being kind of slow I had > > no problems at all. > > Are you able to use it as a normal user or is that not a good idea anyway? > It tells me failed to open /dev/hda permission denied. Of course that > doesn't exist it's just because of linux emulation. What device does it > refer to? My hard drive ad0? I did fail to get the vmware tools > installed. Maybe I'll try that again and give it another go. > Hello, I was prompted for some paths that were Linux specific during the install. What version of VMware did you both install ? -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 "UNIX, A Way of Life !!!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message