Date: 16 Feb 2001 16:31:44 -0500 From: Greg Troxel <gdt@fnord.ir.bbn.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: vmware under 4.2 + KAME 20001221 Message-ID: <rmi1ysy48n3.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
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I'm trying to run vmware. I'm using 2.0.3.799, vmmon 0.98, vmnet
0.21, built from /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2 synced via cvsup last
night. I have also built the emulator/rtc port.
I am using the KAME version of 4.2, with their 20001221 snapshot.
This _should_ be different in networking only, but of course it might
not be. I have nuked /usr/include, installed the includes from my
kame/kernel tree, and then rebuilt the port. I have also rebuilt all
the /modules/*.ko stuff.
I am not using the 'bridge' option.
I am using a 'plain' disk with a fake mbr file, ad0s3, and /dev/null
as described in the hints file.
I am using 16 MB of virtual ram.
My real disk is an IBM travelstar 30. Real HW is an IBM TP600E with
192 MB ram.
I can start vmware ok. It tries to boot and flames me about no os
found (I haven't installed yet in the 'guest' world), and this seems
fine. When I 'turn power off', my machine wedges and reboots. I have
seen complaints fly by seemingly from the vmmon module about unmapping
things and dirty pages. With memory on the virtual machine that
doesn't fit in /tmp and no TMPDIR, I have real problems, not
surprisingly. The wedge/reboot (I didn't get a kernel crash dump)
I have turned off softupdates on / (where vmware puts its ram image
tmp file), and also tried TMPDIR=/n0/tmp (where /n0 is a partition
also not running softupdates, with GB of free space).
I know I should enable crash dumps, and hook up a serial console, and
all that is next on my todo list.
Given all that, does anyone have any words of wisdom or suggestions?
Anyone else successfully running vmware under KAME?
Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
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