From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Jan 9 10: 4:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51CB37B6DD for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:04:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.33 2000/11/21 19:27:27 smothers Exp $) with ESMTP id LAA23365; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:03:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.14 2001/01/02 18:39:59 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id LAA21722; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:03:45 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id NAA07019; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:03:44 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14939.21120.5431.896647@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:03:43 -0700 (MST) To: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" , Subject: RE: VMWare2.0 on FreBSD 4.2 In-Reply-To: References: <20010109092617.B337@jupiter.delta.ny.us> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.6.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ On Tuesday, January 9, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: ] > > :You have try to use some FreeBSD related readme files coming together > :with vmware port, and try to make you existing partiotions works using > :plain disks. > > What readme files...? > > :P.S. If you lookign to use WinXXX XXX Don't forget to boot in safe > :mode and > :create different hardware profile, at other case you can easily screwed up > :you existing setup. > : > > Ouch! Thanks for that tip ;-) if you are using Win98 (SE or not) for the client, don't bother creating the second hardware profile. In fact, don't bother with anything in general (IMHO). Regardless of the "separate hardware profile" things get screwed up between the two if you try to boot the same partition under VMware and natively. If you have things setup natively and use VMware's procedure to install the VMware tools (with the better SVGA driver, etc.) it will hose your drivers for native (put you back in 640x480 mode). If you go fix native drivers (painstakingly) it will hose the VMware setup. Repeat this ad nauseum if you like. AFAICT, it isn't a "FreeBSD problem" either because VMware's news server's lists were flooded with the same complaints I had with people running it under "real linux." There was never any "real" resolution. My advice would be to install win98 in a virtual disk and just use it like that. I had NOTHING but frustration trying to use the same FAT disk under VMware and native boot mode. VMware's "help" site claims they have work-arounds but they absolutely do not work. This information is 3 months old (and coming from my warped memory). If it is out dated and better procedures/work-arounds exist for doing the above, please share them! -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message