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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:10:15 -0600
From:      nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu>
To:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   vmware2, SMP, 4.2-STABLE, etc
Message-ID:  <3A5E2F47.7FB44464@telecom.ksu.edu>

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greetings
i've searched the 'emulators' archive but not found anything lately as
far as bugs etc with vmware2 port.

i've got it installed and loading fine, but it will lock (temporarily)
upon hitting "Power On".
After ~60 seconds (of sitting there locked) it will eventually kill
itself (die) with no real error.

didn't know if there were any known bugs, etc, especially with
linprocfs??

also, i'm running an SMP kernel; perhaps issues there?

i've read about vladimir's vmware patches etc, but those seem dated. Are

they valid anymore? they won't even build 'as-is' since the ports format

has changed since mid-year 2000.

i've posted to questions with little luck, thought perhaps a more
focus'd list would be approriate.

its just that everything looks in order to me, and i had NO trouble
installing/running it on another system, also a 4.2-STABLE, but only a
single proc system... worked first crack out of the box.  friends also
have
reported great success with the vmware2 port on their systems (all have
been
uniprocessor)

i tried running 'truss vmware' to try n get more info, but it locked my
entire system up, and i had to reboot.
gonna see if maybe i can ktrace it or something.. maybe get a better
idea of "what" is happening exactly

thanks all!


Pertanant sys data:

[root@sabre nathan]# uname -a
FreeBSD sabre 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 10 17:58:21 CST
2001     nathan@sabre:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMP4_2  i386

[root@sabre nathan]# sysctl -a | grep hw.
hw.machine: i386
hw.model: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron
hw.ncpu: 2
hw.byteorder: 1234
hw.physmem: 265285632
hw.usermem: 240611328
hw.pagesize: 4096
hw.floatingpoint: 1
hw.machine_arch: i386
hw.atamodes: dma,---,dma,pio,
hw.availpages: 64601

[root@sabre nathan]# dmesg | grep memory
real memory  = 268423168 (262132K bytes)
avail memory = 257802240 (251760K bytes)

[root@sabre nathan]# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   10 0xc0100000 271518   kernel
 2    1 0xc0f9a000 6000     linprocfs.ko
 3    3 0xc0fc0000 11000    linux.ko
 4    1 0xc0fee000 2000     rtc.ko
 5    1 0xc0ff2000 9000     vmmon_smp.ko
 6    1 0xc0ffd000 4000     if_tap.ko
 7    4 0xc1004000 9000     netgraph.ko
 8    1 0xc100f000 3000     ng_ether.ko
 9    1 0xc1014000 4000     ng_bridge.ko
10    1 0xc1019000 3000     ng_socket.ko

[root@sabre nathan]# mount
...
linprocfs on /usr/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)

[root@sabre nathan]# pkg_info | grep linux_base
linux_base-6.1      The base set of packages needed in Linux mode

[root@sabre nathan]# pkg_info | grep rtc
rtc-2000.09.22      Kernel module which provides /dev/rtc device support








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