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To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary
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Ian Dowse wrote:
> 
> 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.

you also might try to look at the patch in PR port/41784

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=41784

i'm running vmware2 on my not so -current with the patch.
if this is outdated feel free to close the PR.

thanks,
max

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