Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:50:08 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI, multiple vmwares is possible but is a hack Message-ID: <p05101006b81e0fd1fae9@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200106121526.f5CFQsp46243@ambrisko.com> References: <200106121526.f5CFQsp46243@ambrisko.com>
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Way back on June 12/2001, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
>I have 2 vmwares running. I got the second one running by creating another
>vmmon with a different name but same number of characters:
> a21p% ls -l /compat/linux/dev/vmmo*
> crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 200, 1 Jun 11 11:00
>/compat/linux/dev/vmmo2
> crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 200, 0 May 9 14:32
>/compat/linux/dev/vmmon
> a21p%
>
>Then I ran this Perl script to patch the "vmmo2" in places of "vmmon":
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> open(VMWARE,"/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware") || die;
> open(DUP,">/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware.dup") || die;
>
> while(<VMWARE>){
> s,/dev/vmmon,/dev/vmmo2,;
> print DUP;
> }
> close VMWARE;
> close DUP;
> system("chmod 4555 /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware.dup");
>
>Then I modified the vmware script to fire up:
> /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware.dup
>
>Now I have 2 vmwares running with networking etc. I define non-conflicting
>devices and use netgraph to tie the various networks together.
is this with the "vmware" port, or the "vmware2" port?
I tried this with the latest vmware2 port, on the latest version of 4.4-stable,
and it didn't quite work. I created the /compat/linux/dev/vmmo2 device by:
cd /compat/linux/dev
mknod vmmo2 c 200 1 root:wheel
which seemed to do the right thing (I get the same output from 'ls' as
Doug listed). The second machine gets an error at startup though, with
vmware complaining:
"Could not open /dev/vmnet1. Device or resource busy.
Failed to configure ethernet0".
I expect that's because I don't know what do about the part where Doug
says "I define non-conflicting devices, and use netgraph...". Do I
need to duplicate /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh , and have it create
a vmnet2 device? If so, how do I get the second-vmnet device? I tried
duplicating the startup-script, and changing vmnet1 to vmnet2, but that
didn't work because 'ifconfig' doesn't know about a vmnet2 interface.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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