Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:22:45 -0500 From: "Greg Larkin" <glarkin@sourcehosting.net> To: "'ajay gopalakrishnan'" <geek.dwells@gmail.com>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ? Message-ID: <008101c75cf7$c990b550$0901a8c0@TWEETY> In-Reply-To: <b8c16adc0703020945n6b2f2006v4900273c58358f76@mail.gmail.com>
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>=20 > Hey all, >=20 > Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware=20 > on windows XP ? > I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw=20 > a mail in this > mailing list regarding some problems while installing on=20 > vmware. Could not > make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while > installing on Vmware. >=20 > Regards, > ajay. Hi Ajay, I wrote in to the list a little while back about VMware installation problems that I had with FreeBSD 6.2, but the issue was completely related to the CPU architecture (Via C3 Nehemiah) that I was using. VMware doesn't officially support that processor, even though it's supposed to be Intel compatible. Another list member sent me a kernel patch that fixed the problem (thanks ghozzy). I also have a WinXP box with a Celeron processor in it and VMware Server installed, and FreeBSD 4.x and 6.x both install and run with no problems at all. If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll try to answer them. I'm going to be learning a lot more about VMware Server and FreeBSD in the coming months, as I'm working on redeploying my company's service using those tools as the foundation. I hope to share that knowledge with the list as I proceed. I also found this thread (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-October/132 716.html) with some information in it about issues to be aware of while running FreeBSD as a guest OS under VMware. Follow the thread a little way, and you'll see an example kernel config file, too. Best of luck, Greg Larkin
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