From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Apr 19 6:36:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp [210.234.123.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDA737BCD0 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 06:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knu@idaemons.org) Received: from daemon.local.idaemons.org (203-165-77-40.sugnm1.kt.home.ne.jp [203.165.77.40]) by ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (8.9.1/3.7W 04/18/00) with ESMTP id WAA00780; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:36:25 +0900 (JST) Received: by daemon.local.idaemons.org (8.9.3/3.7W) id WAA52793; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:35:54 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:35:53 +0900 Message-ID: <868zyadxhi.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" To: grg@philol.msu.ru Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:56:36 +0400" <20000419145636.A42635@isabase.philol.msu.ru> References: <20000419145636.A42635@isabase.philol.msu.ru> User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.1.1 (Purple Rain) EMIKO/1.13.12 (Euglena sociabilis) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) APEL/10.2 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 9) (Canyonlands) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Associated I. Daemons X-PGP-Public-Key: finger knu@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1BEF D9B2 BABD 25D7 659A FD08 89C2 F3BE E981 4E16 MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.13.12 - "Euglena sociabilis") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:56:36 +0400, Grigoriy Strokin wrote: > Where can I find > the instructions on how to deal with FreeBSD-specific > issues? Aren't you using the emulators/vmware2 port?? We are maintaining Hints.FreeBSD to collect and provide such kind of information. > I have already found a linprocfs port accidentally. > I wonder, however, why it is not in the ports tree. Because there has been an issue how we should get it in the source tree, and someone had once imported linprocfs in the tree. 5-CURRENT has it and 4-STABLE as of yesterday had it as part of the base system. > Among other things, I would like to know: > 1) what's to be done when vmware configuration wizard > fails trying to call 'df -T'. I know > that Linux df has the -T option, whereas FreeBSD doesn't Again, I just wonder why you don't use vmware2 port. It has a hack that should cope with that problem, i.e. it provides a fake Linux df. > 2) how to deal with the vmware's attempt to find /dev/tty4 > or so Ditto. The vmware2 port creates them on installation. > 3) why vmware says that I have 'old DGA' and therefore > full screen mode be disabled. Ditto. I wrote a mention of that issue in Hints.FreeBSD. -- / /__ __ / ) ) ) ) / Akinori -Aki- MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message