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To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <Georg.Koltermann@mscsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: vmware fails on -current 
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:57:19 +0000
From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <px8n11jjd1p.wl@hunter.muc.macsch.com>, "Georg-W. Koltermann" writes
:
>I also tried to update /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 to match the
>/dev/vmnet1, and that got me just a litte bit farther.  I now get
>"Could not get address for /dev/vmnet1: Invalid argument
>Failed to configure ethernet0." I added some printf's to
>linux_ioctl.c, and it seems the linux_ioctl_socket() gets a device
>name which is "", i.e. the empty string.

There was a discussion about this and workaround patches for RELENG_4
on -emulation. I'll try to organise with DES to get something
committed soon.

Ian

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