From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 22:24:45 2006 Return-Path: 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 6200016A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:24:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Received: from pluto.hedeland.org (1-1-1-13a.mal.sth.bostream.se [82.182.84.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515F143D69 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:24:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Received: from pluto.hedeland.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pluto.hedeland.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0QMOXYc093214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:24:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from per@pluto.hedeland.org) Received: (from per@localhost) by pluto.hedeland.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k0QMORcc093213; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:24:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from per) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:24:27 +0100 (CET) From: Per Hedeland Message-Id: <200601262224.k0QMORcc093213@pluto.hedeland.org> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net, guido@gvr.org In-Reply-To: <200601262021.MAA81218@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 127.0.0.1 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:24:45 -0000 A couple more data points, both from vmware3 on 5.3-RELEASE: System 1. linux_base-8-8.0_4 vmware3-3.2.1.2242_10,1 - both cvsup'ed up-to-date at the time of installation (Jan 6 2005). Kernel has 'device apic' (but not SMP - it's a single PIII). VMware lives entirely in /usr/local. Runs OKish including networking, but pretty light usage and only Win98 as guest. I do get the bogus kern.hz warning, and I wouldn't call what happens at shutdown a "panic", but it does throw up a popup: VMware Workstation Unrecoverable error: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712 Please request support and include the contents of the log file: '/home/per/vmware/win98/vmware.log'. - I just ignore both.:-) OK, there is some noise about "panic" in the mentioned log, but the guest OS is always shut down properly. System 2. linux_base-7.1_7 vmware3-3.2.1.2242_9,1 Kernel has neither 'device apic' nor SMP (it's a P4 capable of HT, but I had other problems with SMP anyway). VMware lives entirely in /usr/local. On this system VMware would absolutely not run with 'device apic' nor linux_base-8 (same vintage as above). I resorted to the ports skeleton from the release CD and turned off cvsup to keep my sanity. With 'device apic' my mouse went catatonic, and the CPU user/sys/idle timers simply stopped, when I started VMware. With linux-base-8, VMware could be run as root, but trying to run it as an ordinary user resulted in immediate segfault. However with the above setup it runs perfectly, heavy daily use with both WinXP and RH7.3 as guests, simultaneously (in different VMware instances:-), including a lot of network use. I basically never startup or shutdown (they run under Xvnc), but that works fine too as far as I recall. --Per Hedeland