From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 23:34:17 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 72C5537B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9800A43E75 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9A6gi2T003666 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: (from nkinkade@localhost) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9A6gdJd003665 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:42:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:42:39 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware Message-ID: <20021010064239.GC2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <20021010044807.GB2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message