From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 20:54:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E80106566C for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:54:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [83.235.67.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C19D8FC08 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pulstar.local (athedsl-4567620.home.otenet.gr [94.70.126.76]) by rosebud.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id o2HKsnW5029789; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:54:49 +0200 Message-ID: <4BA14199.1020205@otenet.gr> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:54:49 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Norgaard References: <4BA13CE3.4010803@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <4BA13CE3.4010803@locolomo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and vmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:54:53 -0000 On 17/03/2010 10:34 μ.μ., Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried > today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up > the installed FreeBSD. > > This works except for three problems: > > - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the > entries in the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get > an error but problem solved? Best would probably be to label the devices and use the labels instead of device names. It will work without changes in both bare metal and vmware. (Or maybe use the ufsid labels.) Check this out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html > > - I can't see the network devices from vmware The emulated network device is probably different than the one you are using. I believe most recent vmware versions emulate an Intel NIC, i.e. em0. Use ifconfig to check and add a line in rc.conf for this > > - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found This is definitely fixable, make sure you install xf86-video-vmware port and create an xorg.conf by hand if needed (probably not) using the Handbook instructions.