From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Dec 5 16:16:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from cask.force9.net (cask.force9.net [195.166.128.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4395B14D4F for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:16:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ak@freenet.co.uk) Received: (qmail 1762 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 00:16:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coors.free-online.net) (212.56.108.80) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 6 Dec 1999 00:16:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 24407 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 00:07:32 -0000 Received: from 351.hiper03.access.plus.net.uk (HELO freenet.co.uk) (212.56.115.95) by coors.free-online.net with SMTP; 6 Dec 1999 00:07:32 -0000 Message-ID: <384AFF3A.B2773CB7@freenet.co.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 00:11:38 +0000 From: Alex X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware and CDROM was (Re: Linux ioctl not implemented error) References: <19991204210435.D881@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <199912051018.LAA66515@yedi.iaf.nl> <19991205110930.A469@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <384ACA77.9EFC2391@freenet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alex wrote: > > There seems to be something missing from the port. When I try to power > on the machine, I get the following error message (in a Motif message > box): > > "Could not open /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/vmm (No such file or > directory)." > > There really is no such file or directory. Should there be one? OK - there was something wrong with the cpu- and meminfo files that I had grabbed from a Linux box. Running the fakeprocfs script did it - the machine powered on! Now there's another problem - virtual disks aren't working properly. vmware dumps core after displaying the following message: "VMware PANIC: Slave process died" The log file says: > ... junk skipped ... > Dec 05 23:26:32: Created the /tmp/ram0 temporary file. > Dec 05 23:26:32: Msg_Hint hint.hostlinux.rtcopen (not shown) > Dec 05 23:26:33: MHZEstimate 333 > Dec 05 23:26:33: Msg_Hint hint.cpuid.AMDK6 (not shown) > Dec 05 23:26:33: Forking AIO Floppy pid=2176 sharedArea=0x2a63b000 size=0xa000 > Dec 05 23:26:33: Forking AIO IDE0:0 pid=2177 sharedArea=0x2a64d000 size=0x1000 > Dec 05 23:26:33: DISK: OPEN IDE 0:0 /usr/local/vmware/solaris persistent > Dec 05 23:26:33: Virtual disk /usr/local/vmware/solaris is checkcapable and consistent > Dec 05 23:26:33: DISK: ROOT COWDisk /usr/local/vmware/solaris (866/15/63) > Dec 05 23:26:33: COWSanity_Alloc 99 KB > Dec 05 23:27:04: Slave process died > Dec 05 23:27:04: Msg_Post Error: msg.log.panic > VMware PANIC: > > Slave process died > > Dec 05 23:27:12: > > MainPowerOff-- Shutting down devices > Dec 05 23:27:12: AIOPowerOff IDE0:0 > Dec 05 23:27:12: AIOPowerOff Floppy > Dec 05 23:27:12: Slave Floppy exits > Dec 05 23:27:12: MainPowerOff-- Shutdown complete > Dec 05 23:27:12: Clean exit. Disabling IDE 0:0 seems to help, but what good is a virtual machine without a hard drive? Vladimir's page says that raw devices are supported, but I refuse to give it a real device. I tried faking a raw device with vnconfig, but vmware didn't like it (although the configuration editor let me edit the faked device). This is with Soren's ata driver - I haven't tried the old one (yet). Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message