From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 22:16:34 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 80BC916A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (c-24-19-185-75.client.comcast.net [24.19.185.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4393343D1F for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A96D1B9; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:16:33 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Silbersack In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Silbersack <20040310235855.R571@odysseus.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1351427150P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:16:33 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20040313061633.3A96D1B9@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated VMWare3 port needs some testing 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: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 06:16:34 -0000 --==_Exmh_1351427150P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I ever thought vmware3 is not available for 4.x? > > Did I miss something? > I haven't personally run vmware3 on 4.x recently, but I believe that it > does work. > > You might have stumbled into a conversation where people were talking > about running vmware4, which is _not_ currently support on any version of > FreeBSD. Hi, I thought the same thing as Stefan, I've tried several times since I saw the VMWare3 port show up, but never got it to run on 4.x. However, my copy of VMWare 2 continues to work great. I'm running -STABLE from Sunday, and did a both-directions-recursive 'portupgrade' at the same time, (with some mopping-up afterwards), so I've got a fresh copy of linux_base-7.1_7 and all ports are in-sync. I * downloaded and unpacked the tar.gz, * built a new kernel with VFS_AIO option (and rebooted) * set kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1, * pkg_delete'd the VMWare 2 port and did a 'make install' for your patched port. (The "uncommited kernel patch" referred to by the Makefile appears to be already incorporated, but in a different style? In any case, it no longer applies cleanly.) I got: Setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp. VMware Workstation Error: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. Press "Enter" to continue... VMware Workstation Error: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. Press "Enter" to continue... VMware Workstation Error: Failed to initialize monitor device. Press "Enter" to continue... VMware Workstation Error: Failed to initialize monitor device. Press "Enter" to continue... The 'vmnet1' interface shows up in 'ifconfig', and 'kldstat' shows vmmon_up as being loaded. If there's anything I can do to help get this working, let me know. Cheers, AS --==_Exmh_1351427150P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 iD8DBQFAUqdAPHh895bDXeQRAnMtAJwMFZdXIJ1ibBQEtexz/j4z0kGqRQCgnql4 dg31d+Qk/7XPOrY1ChPJEXg= =p1b1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1351427150P--