Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:14:10 -0500 From: Michael W.Holdeman <ptfd9100@beanstalk.net> To: "Travis L. Leuthauser" <travis@bbipmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VMWare2 Message-ID: <02032018141003.13992@fcoffice.ptfd.org> In-Reply-To: <NEBBIGMCEDGDNFGOAAFLIEOEIHAA.travis@bbipmail.com> References: <NEBBIGMCEDGDNFGOAAFLIEOEIHAA.travis@bbipmail.com>
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Looked that over, Pretty greek to a newbie! I assume as root I need to mount /proc to /compat/linux/proc But am not sure, and am not sure how! Mike On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:37, you wrote: > Take a look at the man page for linprocfs.. that should help you out if I > remember correctly > > man 5 linprocfs > > -Travis > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael > W.Holdeman > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:33 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Cc: ports@freebsd.org > Subject: VMWare2 > > > Upon installing vmware 2 from teh ports, everything seemed to go fine > however > when I try to run it as a user I get a complaint about linux procfs not > mounted, when I use /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware it starts but gives > me errors about not being able to execute the vmware workstation executable > file, and module 10 initialization succeeded.. Starts anyway, but I'm > unable to load a guest OS as when trying to hit power on I get could not > open /proc/cpuinfo. > > I tried but did not have a linproc port in teh ports collection. So I got > th > elinprocfs.tar.gz from teh same ftp as teh vmware (mindspring ... ...) and > placed it in teh ports/emulators, tree. When running make ioon it I get > complaints that it is too old, and need to run pkg instead? > > My system is setup with Linux_compatibility=yes in rc.conf. > > > Any help would be appreciated > > Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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