From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Dec 6 5:16: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.mail.easynet.net (kiwi.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC10515290 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 05:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ak@freenet.co.uk) Received: from freenet.co.uk (alister.w.easynet.co.uk [212.212.251.86]) by kiwi.mail.easynet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57210DB066; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:16:04 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <384BB810.F79A2EAD@freenet.co.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 13:20:16 +0000 From: Alex X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware and CDROM was (Re: Linux ioctl not implemented error) References: <19991204210435.D881@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <199912051018.LAA66515@yedi.iaf.nl> <19991205110930.A469@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <384ACA77.9EFC2391@freenet.co.uk> <384AFF3A.B2773CB7@freenet.co.uk> <19991206000007.B1918@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Vladimir N. Silyaev" wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:11:38AM +0000, Alex wrote: > > > > OK - there was something wrong with the cpu- and meminfo files that I > > had grabbed from a Linux box. Running the fakeprocfs script did it - > > the machine powered on! Now there's another problem - virtual disks > > aren't working properly. vmware dumps core after displaying the > > following message: > > > > "VMware PANIC: Slave process died" > Oh-oh. I never saw a message like this. > When you were looked this message, immediately after session start or > latter? About 15 seconds after powering on the machine. It never even gets to the PhoenixBIOS screen. If I disable the virtual disk and make the CD-ROM drive primary master, it powers on - so I guess the problem is IDE drive related. > > Disabling IDE 0:0 seems to help, but what good is a virtual machine > > without a hard drive? > As I understand you use vmware virtual disk, right? > Did you proper create this disk? Because I didn't have any problem > with virtual disk. > I have very simple proposition, just try to create another disk. Yes - I gave it a file name, a size, and clicked "Create". I'll try to create another virtual disk shortly. > > Vladimir's page says that raw devices are supported, but I refuse to > > give it a real device. I tried faking a raw device with vnconfig, but > > vmware didn't like it (although the configuration editor let me edit the > > faked device). > Oh no, don't do such things. When you use raw device it must be > a real IDE drive and (probably) block, not character device. Thought as much - although all devices are now character in -current. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message