Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:05:55 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: grg@philol.msu.ru Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware Message-ID: <8666tedw3g.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:48:24 %2B0400" <20000419174824.A44576@isabase.philol.msu.ru> References: <20000419145636.A42635@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <868zyadxhi.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000419174824.A44576@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
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At Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:48:24 +0400,
Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:35:53PM +0900, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote:
> > Aren't you using the emulators/vmware2 port?? We are maintaining
> > Hints.FreeBSD to collect and provide such kind of information.
>
> I use it. First of all, it just didn't compile saying
> "broken -- This software absolutely requires Linux procfs support"
> until I found the URL of linprocfs post accidentally.
In case you don't, please grab the latest port (tree) to avoid
out-of-date Q&A's.
> Sorry. I might have missed something. Really, there is a file
> /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/df, but during the installation of the port, I
> think I haven't seen any instructions telling to prepend
> /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin to the $PATH.
You don't need to do that. Actually, you need to do nothing if you
successfully installed the vmware2 port.
> > > 2) how to deal with the vmware's attempt to find /dev/tty4
> > > or so
> >
> > Ditto. The vmware2 port creates them on installation.
>
> No. It hasn't created them for me.
Don't you see /compat/linux/dev/tty4? Too weird. I might dare
presume you don't have /compat at all.
> > > 3) why vmware says that I have 'old DGA' and therefore
> > > full screen mode be disabled.
> >
> > Ditto. I wrote a mention of that issue in Hints.FreeBSD.
>
> Excellent. There are not pointers from README to this file,
> however, so I couldn't know about its existence.
When the port/package installation is done, a message that asks you to
refer to the docs installed under `${PREFIX}/share/doc/vmare/' should
have appeared. I think you missed it.
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