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Date:      Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:04:04 +0100
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary 
Message-ID:   <200210030904.aa81031@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 21:24:38 EDT." <p05111710b9c1484025de@[128.113.24.47]> 

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In message <p05111710b9c1484025de@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes:
>I also have a partition with freebsd-current from two or three days
>ago, and all the latest versions of the ports.  Every time I try to
>start vmware2 on the newer system, the hardware dies.  Sometimes it
>automatically reboots, other times it freezes up and I have to
>force-reboot it (sometimes by unplugging it from the wall).

See the patch I posted in:

	http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+6285+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-emulation/20020908.freebsd-emulation

There may still be further issues, but it allowed me to use vmware2
on a current from a week or two ago.

Ian

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