From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 09:05:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFCB16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:05:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03D243D1D for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:05:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from m40-mp1.cvx5-a.pop.dial.ntli.net ([80.1.188.40]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040715090335.DCSV8666.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@m40-mp1.cvx5-a.pop.dial.ntli.net> for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:03:35 +0100 From: Ben Paley To: "freebsd -questions@" Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:06:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407151006.19833.ben@spooty.net> Subject: vmnet.ko missing - but it's there - vmware and crashes (repost) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:05:06 -0000 Hello, I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 root@potato.hogsedge.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window For a while I was getting some sort of network error: vmware would start as long as all the network stuff was disabled, but if I tried to have a host-only connection (I haven't even bothered trying a bridged connection) it wouldn't run (that is, vmware itself would run fine, but the virtual machine wouldn't boot, and I'd get an error message about networking - sorry I didn't make a note of it). So I did portupgrade -fR vmware3 and after a lot of waiting around I tried again: now I get a complete crash (can't even change to another terminal and kill x) whenever I try to start vmware. On boot, I get this message: kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or directory in amongst all the other system stuff, but I also get this: -bash-2.05b# locate vmnet.ko /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko even after updating the locate database. Any ideas what's going wrong? Thanks a lot, Ben