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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 20:35:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org>
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VMware 2.0 problems.
Message-ID:  <200005250335.UAA08816@realtime.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <86hfbngvsm.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> from Akinori -Aki- MUSHA at "May 25, 2000 12:20:41 pm"

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Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote:
> At Wed, 24 May 2000 17:57:33 -0700 (PDT),
> Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten VMware 2.0 to work on a 4.0-stable SCSI system?  I've
> > beaten my head against this wall again and again and I'm about to give
> > up.  I _really_ want to run this software, but this is ridiculous.
> > 
> > My VMware configuration:
> > 
> > No IDE.
> > SCSI 0:0 Plain Disk, contents:
> > 	DRIVETYPE     scsi
> > 	CYLINDERS   1115
> > 	HEADS        255
> > 	SECTORS       63
> > 	ACCESS "/home/frank/vmware/win98/disk.mbr" 0 63
> > 	ACCESS "/dev/da0s1a" 0 6297417
> 
> Are you sure you are going to give vmware your root filesystem??

My root is on /dev/da0s2a.  That's what the RDONLY you elided covered.

> I think you should specify that slice by just /dev/da0s1, with no
> trailing disklabel.

I've tried that.  _That_ gives me:

May 24 20:31:46: BUG F(171):252 bugNr=3419
May 24 20:31:46: MONITOR ERROR BUG F(171):252 bugNr=3419

May 24 20:31:46: Coredump with build $Name: build-476 $
May 24 20:31:46: Writing monitor corefile 'vmware-core'
May 24 20:31:46: Msg_Post Error: msg.log.monpanic
*** VMware internal monitor error ***

BUG F(171):252 bugNr=3419

Please report this problem via the ``File an Incident'' link
at http://www.vmware.com/support.

Argh.

> The message says it all.  You got refused to commit write access on
> the device just because you didn't have write permission.

I'm not naive, I covered that.  Got the above crash.  I just want to know
if anyone has gotten vmware working in a similar environment and if so,
how.
-- 
Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com	http://www.exit.com/
Exit Consulting                 http://store.exit.com/


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