From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 18:23:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC03316A405 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@sourcehosting.net) Received: from sourcehosting.net (sourcehosting.net [204.8.45.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871F913C442 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@sourcehosting.net) Received: (qmail 1198 invoked by uid 0); 2 Mar 2007 18:23:23 -0000 Received: from glarkin@sourcehosting.net by patches by uid 2033 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc1 (0.80 Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.019527 secs); 02 Mar 2007 18:23:23 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: glarkin@sourcehosting.net via patches X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20rc1 (Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.019527 secs) Received: from 68-189-244-97.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com (HELO Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local) (68.189.244.97) by 192.168.1.4 with SMTP; 2 Mar 2007 18:23:23 -0000 Received: from TWEETY (tweety.entropy.prv [192.168.1.9]) by Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC22DAC4BB; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:22:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Greg Larkin" To: "'ajay gopalakrishnan'" , Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:22:45 -0500 Organization: SourceHosting.net, LLC Message-ID: <008101c75cf7$c990b550$0901a8c0@TWEETY> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6822 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Thread-Index: Acdc8w7kNoua0JMjQ/GH130FqyJiIgAA2G5g Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@sourcehosting.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:23:24 -0000 >=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