Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:34:05 -0700 (PDT) From: erwan@netvalue.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/28030: VMware requires block device for linux /dev/hda Message-ID: <200106110734.f5B7Y5X92502@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 28030 >Category: ports >Synopsis: VMware requires block device for linux /dev/hda >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 11 00:40:00 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Erwan Arzur >Release: 4.3-stable >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD amelie.arzur.net 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #3: Mon Jun 4 20:25:35 CEST 2001 root@amelie.arzur.net:/spare1/obj/spare1/src/sys/AMELIE i386 >Description: when starting VMWare 2, configured with the attached configuration, "Failed to open rawdisk /dev/hda, not a raw device. The device specified by the safe raw disk is not a raw disk failed to configure ide0:1 The virtual machine cannot bla-bla-bla ... When it used to work perfectly ... >How-To-Repeat: vmware configuration : #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware config.version = "2" # CD-ROM ide1:0.present = TRUE ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/acd0c" ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom" ide1:0.startConnected = TRUE # Raw hard disk /dev/hda ide0:0.present = TRUE ide0:0.fileName = "/oldfs/space4/vmware/disk1" ide0:0.deviceType = "ata-hardDisk" ide0:0.mode = "persistent" # Floppy floppy0.present = TRUE floppy0.fileName = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/floppies/windows.flp" floppy0.startConnected = FALSE # Networking bridged to real ethernet ethernet0.present = TRUE ethernet0.connectionType = "hostOnly" # Memory size memsize = 64 # Nvram nvram = "/home/zuzur/vmware/win98/win98.nvram" # Log file log.fileName = "/home/zuzur/vmware/win98/win98.log" # Hints guestOS = "win98" ide0:1.present = TRUE ide0:1.deviceType = "rawDisk" ide0:1.fileName = "/home/zuzur/vmware/win98/win98.hda" toolsFloppyInserted = TRUE floppy0.fileType = "file" mouse.hostType = "PS/2" mouse.fileName = "/dev/mouse" sound.present = TRUE sound.device = "/dev/dsp" gui.controlShiftAlt = FALSE gui.powerOnAtStartUp = FALSE gui.fullScreenAtPowerOn = FALSE apmSuspend = TRUE suspendToDisk = TRUE gui.exitAtPowerOff = FALSE hard-disk.enableIBR = FALSE gui.fullScreenResize = TRUE logging = TRUE debug = FALSE redoLogDir = "" tools.remindInstall = FALSE save_floppy0.present = "true" save_floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0" save_floppy0.fileType = "device" save_floppy0.startConnected = "true" save_floppy0.connectedState = "true" win98.hda : DEVICE /dev/hda # Partition type: MBR RDONLY 0 62 # Partition type: FAT16 ACCESS 63 2457944 # Partition type: BSD/386 RDONLY 2457945 4546394 # Extended partition hole RDONLY 4546395 4546457 # Partition type: FAT16 ACCESS 4546458 8739359 # Extended partition hole RDONLY 8739360 8739422 # Partition type: FAT16 ACCESS 8739423 12932324 # Extended partition hole RDONLY 12932325 12932387 # Partition type: FAT16 ACCESS 12932388 14795864 # Partition type: BSD/386 RDONLY 14795865 19743884 >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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