Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:50:27 +0100 From: Stefan Farrenkopf <farrenkopf@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: vmware3 problems on FreeBSD 4.9 Message-ID: <8430000.1079545827@sub00261.sub.uni-goettingen.de>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, after all the discussion about vmware3 on 4.9 I thought it's wort to try it. Here are the steps I made and at the end I describe the problem I have now. I updated my source and applied the kernel patch, I also added VFS_AIO to my kernel configuration file. uname -a says now: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p4 Then I removed vmware2 and installed vmware3 from the ports. I answered no to netgraph binding and configured a private IP adress and a netmask during the installation. Below you will find my config file (/usr/local/etc/vmware/config): vmware.fullpath = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware" wizard.fullpath = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-wizard" dhcpd.fullpath = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmnet-dhcpd" loop.fullpath = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-loop" libdir = "/usr/local/lib/vmware" vmnet1.HostOnlyAddress = "192.168.254.1" vmnet1.HostOnlyNetMask = "255.255.255.0" I added the following line to my /etc/sysctl.conf file: kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1 Because of the new kernel I rebooted the machine. After I got back to a running system, I tried to run vmware with my vmware2 configuration and with a new configuration where I pointed to the existing disks (2 Virtual IDE drives). I had a look at my vmware2 configuration and added the cdrom by hand (/dev/adc0c). When I try to Choose this device from my /dev directory it does not show up in the open dialog. There are instead only a few devices with typical linux names (hda, ...). The main problem I have now: I don't have a working vmnet interface :( If I PowerOn vmware it complains about the missing /dev/vmnet1. I tried to restart the vmware components by executing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware stop/start and I had to realize that there's a problem with the initialisation of vmnet1. Here's the output of "vmware.sh start": ifconfig: interface vmnet1 does not exist and if I do a stop the same message appears. I removed the Host-only network interface from my vmware configuration and bootet the win2k installation with success. I was able to install the newer vmware tools, but I was not able to switch to full screen mode. If I tried to nothing happened. Besides the missing network interface everything is fine, but without the network I am not able to connect to the samba daemon and vmware is useless for my application :( Any suggestions how to solve the problem? best wishes, Stefan
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?8430000.1079545827>