From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 6:37: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55DD37B4CF for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 06:36:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.146]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id JAA25653; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:36:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id JAA23376; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:36:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:36:58 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Krzysztof Parzyszek Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <20001124023403.A7169@buchanan-181-249.stures.iastate> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Krzysztof Parzyszek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:43:29AM -0500, Tim McMillen wrote: > > Are you able to use it as a normal user or is that not a good idea anyway? > > I guess it's not a good idea to run it as root... I can run it as > a normal user. > > > 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? > > When exactly does it complain? As soon as I try to power on the virtual machine. Perhaps I made a mistake in setting up the directory that the machine used as it's virtual disk. I'll be out of town this weekend without a chance to work on it, but I'll try to make a few changes in the way I configure vmware. Thanks, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message