From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 20:50:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F8F16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:50:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 194-185-53-242.f5.ngi.it (194-185-53-242.f5.ngi.it [194.185.53.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E8A43D45 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:50:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@remotelab.org) Received: from einstein.lab (localhost. [127.0.0.1])i8UKoWKF038427; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:50:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mark@remotelab.org) Received: from einstein.lab (localhost.lab [127.0.0.1]) by einstein.lab (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8UKor6H003678; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:50:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mark@einstein.lab) Received: (from mark@localhost) by einstein.lab (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8UKoqhj003677; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:50:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:50:52 +0200 From: Marco Trentini To: bsdfsse Message-ID: <20040930205052.GC679@einstein.lab> References: <415B40E0.5030708@optonline.net> <415BC408.8070200@optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <415BC408.8070200@optonline.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD einstein.lab 6.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:50:35 -0000 On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:30:00AM -0400, bsdfsse wrote: > > I tried some more things I read about online, but it still locks up: > > I rebuilt my kernel with "HZ=1200", and that got rid of the "rtc: > 100>kern.hz" messages. > > My /boot/loader.conf needed this: > hw.ata.ata_dma="0" > which changed this message: > ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA no interrupt but good status > to become this message: > ad0: WARNING - WRITE_MUL no interrupt but good status > The machine still hangs when I start the virtual machine. > > As soon as I hit the "Power on" button, FreeBSD nearly freezes. I can > do a few things, but even after I "kill -9" vmware, the machine is still > hosed. > > I really need to get VMWare to work, or else I have to reload Linux (or > Windows). I own VMware 3.2 and 4.5 for both Windows and Linux. > > Each time my machine locks up, it starts running "fsck" in the background. > > Any suggestions? Just one. Do you have ACPI turn on? In this case try turn off it. Read pkg-message of the vmware3 port for more details. -- Marco Trentini mark@remotelab.org http://www.remotelab.org/