From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 7 20: 6: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8777B14D1B for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:05:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vsilyaev@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2iniie3.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.73.195]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA08548; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:05:56 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA06776; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:05:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vsilyaev) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:05:47 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmnet (was: Linux ioctl not implemented error) Message-ID: <19991207230546.A6719@jupiter.delta.ny.us> References: <19991202160515.C536@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <19991202223604.B5379@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <86so1ekcxq.fsf@not.demophon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <86so1ekcxq.fsf@not.demophon.com>; from will@iki.fi on Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 05:06:41PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 05:06:41PM +0200, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > are need to have steal nerves. I fill that, at the time when I was porting > > vmware. I have too much hours of very interested work - load driver, launch > > vmware and then looking into the DDB double fault screen. Reload box, > > and then again. > > I suppose that the incomplete virtualization of the x86 prevents you > from running vmware on FreeBSD on vmware on Linux for debugging? Yes, exactly. The VMware web site have a warning like this 'even don't try to run VMware on VMware guest, this don't work, and may be lock our computer'. But the vmware vmmon driver have some footprint of code, to support such thing in the special VMware version. But at any case, in the last night I have a success with FreeBSD version of the vmnet driver, see announce in emulation. -- Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message