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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:20:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
To:        Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vmware2
Message-ID:  <20020430101952.B82235-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020430112008.B86224@sr.se>

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you need to mount linprocfs... first remove anything you put in
/usr/compat/linux/proc, then

mount -t linprocfs /proc /usr/compat/linux/proc

That's it!

Ken

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Gunnar Flygt wrote:

> Hello! I searched the archives, and there seems to be nothing concerning
> vmware since 1 year back, and nothing answered my question. So here we
> go.
>
> I just installed vmware2 on my new 4.5-STABLE
>
> When running vmware it complained about the linprocfs not being mounted.
> So I just created the files and directorys described in the linprocfs
> man page. To no help though, since when starting vmware I get an error
>
> Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file.
> Possibly an installation error?
> Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file.
> Possibly an installation error?
> Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file.
> Possibly an installation error?
> Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file.
> Possibly an installation error?
> Module 10 initialization succeeded.
>
> I press OK on that one and gets the WMware Workstation dialog for
> setting up a new system. If I choose "Run the Configuration Wizard." I
> get the following error:
>
> Error opening /proc/meminfo:
> child process exited abnormally
>
> So how do I proceed from here?
>
> --
>                            __o
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> email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_)
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