From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 19 9:20:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from KIWI-Computer.com (kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDA837B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:20:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by KIWI-Computer.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA22989; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:17:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: FreeBSD Message-Id: <200011191717.LAA22989@KIWI-Computer.com> Subject: Re: Problem with my VMware2 In-Reply-To: <001101c05234$d24220a0$317be29f@11> from "S.W.Liu" at "Nov 19, 2000 10:27:17 pm" To: "S.W.Liu" Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:17:51 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I install vmware2 from ports of my FreeBSD 4.1-release.All things I have resolved. But there is a thing I can't resolve: when I run vmware and when I push "Power On" Button, it say: > > can't open /proc/cpuinfo > > and I can't to use vmware any more! > > I think this is FreeBSD's errror, but how can I do now?! There is not a file named cpuinfo in /proc directory! and this directory is Read-Only. > > How can I do? can you help me? You need to enable the linux procfs support and mount it. Add the following line to your /etc/fstab: linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 Which will mount it at reboot. To mount it immediately without restarting, type: "mount /compat/linux/proc"-- both of these should be done as root. You will notice that /compat/linux/proc/cpuinfo now exists and vmware/vmware2 will work. The directory is read-only because it's not a real directory, but a set of calls to the kernel which report the process and CPU information. Good luck, --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy rick@kiwi-computer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message