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Subject: Re: VMWare2
From: "Mark Yeck" <y3k@gti.net>
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> 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

I 
have the following line in /etc/fstab:

/proc   /usr/compat/linux/proc  linprocfs       rw      0       
0

When I boot that sets up the linprocfs stuff automatically. To do it manually is 
something like:

/sbin/mount -t linprocfs /proc /usr/compat/linux/proc

-mark


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