Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:36:11 +0300 From: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@express.ru> To: hm@hcs.de Cc: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <Georg.Koltermann@mscsoftware.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vmware fails on -current Message-ID: <15354.52427.689654.61679@vbook.express.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011120194718.DBAEA3B9@hcswork.hcs.de> References: <px8n11jjd1p.wl@hunter.muc.macsch.com> <20011120194718.DBAEA3B9@hcswork.hcs.de>
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Hellmuth Michaelis writes: > Today i got it to compile and run: > > - apply the patch from Munehiro Matsuda to hostif.c, this makes the vmware2 > port compile under -current as of today > > - as described above, use /dev/vmnet1 instead of /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh > > - replace /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 with a symlink to /dev/vmnet1 > (perhaps the previous step would be unnecessary by this one) > > After this, vmware comes up and then complains about not able to use > /dev/rtc (/dev/rtc is present in /compat/linux and is kld-loaded) but > then continues to start up and runs. > > One thing which looks funny to me is this that the vmnet1 device files > have different minor numbers: > > <ROOT@bert>/root ll /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK /dev/vmnet1 > crw------- 1 root wheel 149, 0x00800001 Nov 20 18:50 /dev/vmnet1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 149, 0x00010001 Nov 20 18:42 /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK > > (where /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK is from the vmware2 port install > and moved from vmnet1 to vmnet1-BAK before the new symlink was made). After all, after block disk devices was removed wmvare stops support plain disks :(. Do anybody have solution for it ? > hellmuth > -- > Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 > HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 > Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de > D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de -- TSB Russian Express, Moscow Vladimir B. Grebenschikov, vova@express.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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