From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Feb 22 20:26:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE0B37B404 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 20:26:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g1N4QlfH038354; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:26:47 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020218080318.A339@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20011110222046.A54582@server.vns.oc.ca.ua> <20011112072336.A60470@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020215094528.E50440@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020218080318.A339@laptop.6bone.nl> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:26:46 -0500 To: Mark Santcroos From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Questions on Vmware2 (or vmware3?) on current Cc: Vladimir N Silyaev , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, I keep banging my head against this, as time permits... This is just meant as some more info to ponder, once someone has some time to look into this. Hopefully I'm not seeming like too much of a pest. At 8:03 AM +0100 2/18/02, Mark Santcroos wrote: >On Fri, Feb 15, 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I do have NETGRAPH in the kernel, and the script installed in >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh does look like it's *trying* to setup >> the right network from there, but it dies at the line which does >> the 'echo -n > $dev_vmnet' claiming that there is no such device or >> address (even though there does seem to be the right special-device >> defined at that point, which is just /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 ). > >If you have DEVFS in your kernel, then /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 >should be a symlink to /dev/vmnet1. As I understand the kernel config in -current, DEVFS is now the default, and you'll get it unless you specify 'options NODEVFS'. I have not specified that, so I assume I have DEVFS. After building a pretty recent current, this is all I have for the vmware-related devices: (27) ls -l /dev/vm* crw------- 1 root wheel 200, 0 Feb 22 23:11 /dev/vmmon (28) ls -l /usr/compat/linux/dev/vm* crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 200, 0 Feb 22 23:07 /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmmon crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 149, 0x00010001 Feb 22 23:07 /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 No symlinks anywhere, and no /dev/vmnet at all... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message