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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:20:18 +0200
From:      Benjamin Kohler <kob@trash.net>
To:        Yuriy Gerasimov <yura@pth.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware trouble
Message-ID:  <20040412192018.19119f7d@chucky.unixfoo.ch>
In-Reply-To: <c55ita$18bc$1@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
References:  <c55ita$18bc$1@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>

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Hi Yuriy,
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:25:04 +0300
Yuriy Gerasimov <yura@pth.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> wrote:

> I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1.
> 
> I cannot Power it On. I have just error
> 
> Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument.
> Failed to initialize SVGA device.

I use vmware3 on current. Please check if you have the following settings:

in /etc/sysctl.conf
kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1

and in your Kernelconf:

options         VFS_AIO

cu
benj



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