From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 7:42:13 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 2A5DA37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from world.tonkinresolutions.com (233-123.adsl6.netlojix.net [207.71.233.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC7F43E97 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:42:10 -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 g9AEUex92631; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:30:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rlnt.net) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:30:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Tonkin X-Sender: nick@world.tonkinresolutions.com To: Nathan Kinkade Cc: zith@zith.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware In-Reply-To: <20021010064239.GC2247@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 On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > 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 [ snip ] > > 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. There do not appear to be any concise definitive instructions for setting up vmware2 on FreeBSD. Most seem to say that one should specify netgraph bridging while building VMWare but host-only networking when configuring a virtual machine. I've done that (and every other possible combination, I think!) but still no joy. It's closer than it was but now hangs _after_ the virtual machine has apparently started to boot (menu buttons change, etc) with: Could not get interface address for vmnet1: Cannot assign requested address. Failed to configure ethernet0 This is after following another bit of advice to make sure the IP address assigned to vmnet1 is not in use anywhere else. Any hints to get me to the promised land? ---- Another weird problem is that vmware refuses to start with 'Cannot open display' every time I start X ... I have to use /stand/sysinstall to edit my XFree86 config and change the screen specs, then restart X and restart vmware for it to be happy. this happens every time. I'm thinking I'll have to write a script to do it automatically ... :( Thanks, Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message