From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 18:03:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEE316A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turkey.mail.pas.earthlink.net (turkey.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D2444011 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from beaker.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.247]) by turkey.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1A4VP2-0005oY-00 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:03:40 -0700 Message-ID: <14535124.1064970220381.JavaMail.root@beaker.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:03:40 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Sean Welch To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Zoo Mail 1.0 Subject: vmware3 tips and observations X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean Welch List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 01:03:44 -0000 I found the following characteristics of the current port (under 5.1 RELEASE). The wizard does not work from the drop-down menu. It is just a shell script and the core dump is just from the bash. The solution is to run it directly. ( /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-wizard ) Win2k Pro will freeze during install. The problem is somehow related to the type of virtual disk you create. When I switched to a vitual disk from the menu (in the wizard) labeled for NT the OS installed without issue. I actually changed all the names of the related files to what they were when I selected the Windows 2000 Professional option to create the disk and didn't have any issues -- evidently the differences are purely in the actual virtual disk(s). Virtual machines with Quicktime installed run *significantly* slower when the "web services" are enabled (little quicktime icon in the system tray) -- turn it off and everything speeds up wonderfully. The vmmon_up module will unload just fine -- as long as you haven't "powered up" a virtual machine. It will refuse to unload ("in use") if you have "powered up" a virtual machine. This appears to be harmless -- it will be force unloaded during shutdown. The rtc module will panic the system when unloaded -- *if* used when the virtual machine is "powered up" with that module "attached." If you want to use it anyway, hack up the startup script ( /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rtc.sh ) so that it does not have an argument for the "stop)" selection. If you do this the module will not be unloaded by the script when you shut- down/reboot the real machine. The disks will actually have a chance to sync before the kernel tries to force unload the module. You'll still get a panic but it won't matter because it doesn't touch your disk. The lincense key can be entered to produce a license file from the GUI menu. As installed it will fail but if you copy the license.ws.3.0 file to ~/.vmware that will be found and you can type in your key. The GUI will do the hash calculation for you. You cannot install the vmware guest tools from the default install (as far as I can tell). The problem is that the iso image files are not copied from to /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib directory. I just did a make extract under /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3 and did a manual copy of that directory to the correct place. Redhat 9 doesn't find the sound card on my machine. Win98 and Win2kPro use it just fine. I haven't figured this one out yet. Hope this helps some on this list! Sean