From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Mar 15 23: 0: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [205.178.90.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B5437B719 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from morpheus.kfu.com (morpheus.kfu.com [205.178.90.230]) by quack.kfu.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2G704o03823; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com by morpheus.kfu.com with ESMTP (8.11.3//ident-1.0) id f2G703n04310; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3AB1B9F3.90401@quack.kfu.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:00:03 -0800 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-BETA i386; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010313 X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Jennejohn , freebsd-emulation Subject: Re: vmware and disk devices References: <200103151837.f2FIb0e09458@peedub.muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Yes, don't forget that vmware is running under the linuxulator. > vmware is looking devices under /compat/linux/dev, _not_ /dev. > Try making symbolic links from /dev into /compat/linux/dev. > Do NOT do this. Your symlink will not do what you want. The Linuxulator will look for files in /compat/linux and if it doesn't find them it will then look in /dev. If you symlink /compat/linux/dev/cdrom to /dev/cd0a, the TARGET of the symlink will first be looked for at /compat/linux/dev/cd0a -- almost certainly not what you had in mind. In general, never symlink from /compat/linux to anything outside. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message