From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Nov 27 19:20:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles511.castles.com [208.214.165.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FDC14EF6; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA97385; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:21:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911280321.TAA97385@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: Mike Smith , emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: VMware 1.1 for Linux on the FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:14:40 EST." <199911280114.UAA03593@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:21:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Cool, thanks! Next step will be to work out how we can either fix their > > wizard or tweak the setup so that it's not offered as an option. > > I think, currently we are have a much more important leaks. > - virtual networking > - fullscreen mode > - floppy disk detection > - serial ports > - support for other hardware: parallel port, sound card Ok. Sounds like a reasonable set of priorities. I would add "correct detection of available memory", since it's claiming that only 32MB is available on a 128MB machine. However, I'm currently having no luck with the configuration editor either; I can successfully edit the configuration, but when saving it VMware dies with (USER) Exiting on unexpected signal. Panic without a VM after writing just one line to the configuration file: #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware I note also that you don't install vmware setuid. Probably a good idea, but one that will trip a few people up. BTW, having looked more closely at the test you use for detecting whether the right linux module is loaded I'm not so sure it's entirely good: it does presume that the kernel sources are installed and that the running linux module was built from /sys. However, I can't come up with a better simple solution, so I'm not going to complain. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message