From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Dec 2 9:51:33 2002 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 34A2A37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:51:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from psg.com (psg.com [147.28.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA69843EC2 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:51:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from roam.psg.com ([147.28.4.2] ident=mailnull) by psg.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18IujD-000PBy-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 09:51:31 -0800 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com.psg.com ident=randy) by roam.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18Iuj8-00082x-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 09:51:26 -0800 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dmitry Karasik Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware questions References: <3DEB8914.DFC12FCA@karasik.eu.org> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 09:51:26 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > - Raw disk type ( neither /dev/ad0 nor /linux/dev/hda ) is not > recognized, and vmware refuses to start when one is present. #!/bin/sh rm /usr/compat/linux/dev/hda mknod /usr/compat/linux/dev/hda b 30 0x00010002 randy:wheel rm /usr/compat/linux/dev/hdb mknod /usr/compat/linux/dev/hdb b 30 0x0001000a randy:wheel chown randy:wheel /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 > - Boot process from win95 diskette hangs shortly after displaying > 'Starting Windows...' message do you have cpu step enabled? if so, disable > - Complaints about inaccessibility of /dev/rtc ( which is > nevertheless present in /linux/dev ) it has to be started in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rtc.sh. but it's hosed anyway, i killed it. let freebsd run the clock. > I tries to start the latest vmware ( version 3.2 ), but even the > configure script does not work dream on. the port of vmware 3 is a promise not fulfilled, and the people doing it rudely refused an offer of assistance when i actually had a slot of time to contribute. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message