From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Jun 20 19: 9:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997BB37BA35 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA337118; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:09:48 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <394FBC7F.B120017A@partitur.se> References: <394FBC7F.B120017A@partitur.se> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:10:28 -0400 To: Palle Girgensohn , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: vmware still fails on SMP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:48 PM +0200 6/20/00, Palle Girgensohn wrote: >Hi! > >I have now updated to the latest beta port of the vmware port, >and patches my 4-sTABLE sources to get the distributed >linprocfs built and running as per the PR sent last friday. >Still, my SMP machine fails with the same error as per my >monday mail: There seems to be a new port from late today or yesterday, which installed the newly-released vmware-2.01. Is that the port you have? This seems to fix up a few things for me, though right now it's telling me I have to update the bios on my motherboard to avoid some errors. (in my case, I have a dual-Coppermine-P3). If you select "About VMware Workstation" under the "Help" menu of vmware, what version number does it report? The interesting thing about this port, compared to the previous one that I had, is that the startup script seems to know the difference between UP and SMP systems. > This happens on only one of our machines, and it is the > only smp I've tried. It is a dual 233Mhz; vmware warns me > that 266MHz is recommended, but I can't beleive that is > the source of all evil... For what it's worth, my previous hardware was a dual-CPU 200-MHz Pentium Pro. I also always got that warning (I was running vmware with linux as the host OS), and it never caused a problem. It WAS a bit on the slow side, which is why I bought the new machine, but it worked fine... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message