From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 22:24:44 2004 Return-Path: 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 5C65F16A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:24:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (kestrel.alerce.com [209.182.219.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F07E43D2F for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:24:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from satchel.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (authenticated bits=128) by kestrel.alerce.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8OMOgUQ020731 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:24:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from satchel.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by satchel.alerce.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8OMP237057921 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell@satchel.alerce.com) Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by satchel.alerce.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8OMP2dw057917; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16724.40637.730925.789562@satchel.alerce.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:25:01 -0700 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 15) "Security Through Obscurity" XEmacs Lucid X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' Subject: vmware[23] ports status for 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:24:44 -0000 I'm curious about the state of the vmware ports for the 5.3 Release. VMWARE2 I've been successfully running vmware2 on my 4.x box for several years, in a bridged configuration with Windows98 running in a virtual disk. I managed to get vmware2 mostly running in a T42p running 5.3BETA3 this morning, using patches from the ports/68202 pr, replacing various calls to kmem_alloc_pageable with kmem_alloc_nofault, and sacrificing tuxedo-wearing fowl to the appropriate daemon. I built it for host-only networking, since I'm tired of worrying about having the windows machine out on the net and I'm planning to just give it nat access out to the world. My virtual machine boots and runs, but I have a trivial problem and two unsurmounted problems. 1) when I start the virtual machine, it complains about a "CPUID feature bit not understood by this version of the product". I've told it not to bother me about it any more, and just kept going. Am I courting disaster? 2) I can't seem to get networking to work. I've assigned 192.168.254.[23] addresses to the two tcp/ip devices that show up in the control panel, but I can't ping my host (which does have a vmnet1 interface on 192.168.254.1). Suggestions would be welcome, though I haven't thrown in the towel yet. 3) The machine takes about 2 minutes to shut down. It puts up the shutdown screen, the load goes to 1, and nothing happens. I decided to ignore it, and sure enough it eventually finished. Thoughts? VMWARE3 I actually got a vmware3 license back in the day, but haven't ever put it to use. I thought about moving "up" to vmware3 on the new laptop, but I noticed a comment about needed to turn off acpi. Since I need acpi to make my laptop work well, I'm stuck. Is there something inherent in the vmware3 port that means that it'll never get along w/ ACPI? Is someone moving forward with it? Is it a project looking for an owner? VMWARE4 Anyone playing with vmware4? g.