Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:30:56 +0100 (MET) From: Per Andersson <perre@tfstech.org> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Running vmware2 on FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE problems Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0303262218130.17131-100000@aloha>
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Hi guys ! My apologies for the long mail but I'm getting desperate. I've run into some problems when trying to run the vmware2 on FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE. My system consists of an IDE disk that contains two major partitions consisting of a FreeBSD and a Windows 2000 installation on each partition and what I want to do is to be able to boot my win2000 partition on VMware under FreeBSD. However, when trying to set up the "virtual" hardisk file vmware will complain about unknown file system and exit. The file called "win200.hda" looks like this. ===== START ==== DRIVETYPE ide CYLINDERS 38792 HEADS 16 SECTORS 63 DEVICE /dev/hda # ad0: 19092MB <ST320414A> [38792/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 # # The geometry must be the physical geometry reported by the disk. # grep ad0 /var/run/dmesg.boot and look for the 3 numbers in the # brackets. They are the C/H/S. # Partition type: MBR # Master Boot Record RDONLY "/root/vmware/win2000/root.mbr" 0 62 # Partition type: Unused NO_ACCESS "/dev/null" 63 12289724 # My win2k partition (FAT-32). ACCESS "/dev/ad0s2" 12289725 22539194 # My FreeBSD Partition partition (I don't want vmware to mess with it). NO_ACCESS "/dev/null" 22539195 39102335 ===== END ==== and my config file looks like this ===== START ==== #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware config.version = 2 # CD-ROM ide1:0.present = TRUE ide1:0.fileName = /dev/acd0 ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom" ide1:0.startConnected = TRUE # Floppy floppy0.present = TRUE floppy0.fileName = /dev/fd0 floppy0.startConnected = TRUE # Raw hard disk /dev/hda ide0:0.present = TRUE ide0:0.fileName = /root/vmware/win2000/win2000.hda ide0:0.deviceType = "plainDisk" ide0:0.mode = "persistent" # Networked to host only subnet ethernet0.present = TRUE ethernet0.connectionType = hostOnly # Memory size memsize = 128 # Nvram nvram = /root/win2000/win2000.nvram ==== END ==== The "old" description of how this should be set up uses the raw interface but apparantely these are not available in 5.0. Thank you for your time and help. /Perre Per Andersson______________________________________perre@tfstech.org TFS Technology, Sweden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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