From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 22:13:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7D737B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from world.tonkinresolutions.com (233-123.adsl6.netlojix.net [207.71.233.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB39D43E77 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rlnt.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by world.tonkinresolutions.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g9A52P291342; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:02:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rlnt.net) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:02:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Tonkin X-Sender: nick@world.tonkinresolutions.com To: Nathan Kinkade Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware In-Reply-To: <20021010044807.GB2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Excuse me, but did you get networking working with win2k guest on freebsd? - nick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nick Tonkin {|8^)> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: > > vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon > > > > The highest OS I've tested it with is windows 98. > > > > the higher os's do something ssid or something or other (advanced cpu > > instructions) which cause the guest os to puke. > > > > SweeTLeaF wrote: > > > > >I am wanting to try VMware to emulate XP and have a few questions for > > >those who are using it. > > > > > >Currently i am booting between , freebsd, redhat and XP. These OS's > > >are already installed on their own native partitions. This is my first > > >question, I want to use freebsd as my host OS for vmware: Can i tell > > >vmware to use the already existing NTFS partition and ext3 "linux" > > >partition like you can in wine or do i have to reinstall both linux > > >and XP under vmware emulation? I really don't want to reinstall XP > > >and Redhat as they are all setup and running great. If this is > > >feasible please elaborate or point to reference material as the vmware > > >guide suggest you have to install all the virtual hosts OS's under > > >vmware emulation. > > > > > >Memory: I have a athlon 1800+ with 256/ddr 2100 ram...is this enough > > >to run all 3 OS's @ the same time, and if not what would be the > > >recommended amount? > > > > > > > > >Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > > >By the way is 4.7 release out? The reason i ask is because i see the > > >4.7 dir on the ftp, but there is no disk 1 there is 2,3,4 but no 1. > > >The first disk says 4.7rc2.....is this the first disk for the final > > >4.7 rel? > > I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days ago, > everything seemed to work find including networking. However, I unistalled > the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - both vmware and win2k. By the > way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to get at the contents of *.exe > self-extracting archives. This problem was what led me to fiddle with vmware > in the first place. > > Nathan > > 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