Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:42:39 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware Message-ID: <20021010064239.GC2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210092201570.91340-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com> References: <20021010044807.GB2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210092201570.91340-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com>
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote:
> 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
> Excuse me, but did you get networking working with win2k guest on
> freebsd?
>
> - nick
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Nick Tonkin {|8^)>
Yes, networking was up and running. Although, it was host-based, not bridged.
The bridged setup seemed to be broken - got all sort of errors when it was
loading if_tap.ko.
Nathan
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