From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Jul 26 15:11:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from southpass.baynetworks.com (ns2.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443C537C241 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:11:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM) Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (h8754.s84f5.BayNetworks.COM [132.245.135.84]) by southpass.baynetworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA07973 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (pobox.engeast.baynetworks.com [192.32.61.6]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14815 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:11:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from baynetworks.com (kyzyl [192.32.150.103]) by pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (SMI-8.6/BNET-97/04/24-S) with ESMTP id SAA07144; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:11:48 -0400 for Message-Id: <200007262211.SAA07144@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: emulation@freebsd.org Cc: bwithrow@engeast.BayNetworks.COM Subject: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:11:48 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm sorry, but I'm floundering like a dying mackerel. I've got an existing FBSD 4.0Rel/Nt4 multiboot setup that I'm trying to configure VMWare for. I've read the Hints.FreeBSD and I've scanned through a substantial part of the mailing list archives, and while I've got a glimmer of what is required--well-- I must be a dummy... Status: I've got vmware installed and a license installed, and it seems to be working, but I can't configure a working setup. I'm using vmware2-2.0.2.621. Questions: 1) When using the configuration wizard, I'm asked for a "Disk type setting". What am I supposed to do here for an *existing* NT partition? Remember, I'm a dummy, so give me simple, step-by-step instructions! ;-) a) What I did was select "existing physical disk". b) What I get is an error dialog saying "/dev/hdx -- not present". 2) I gather that there is a ".hda" file you may need to construct (even though nothing in Hints.FreeBSD says anything about a ".hda" file. Remember: I'm a dummy.) How do you create that file *before* you have a config? Or what do you do instead? Symlink? 3) I've seen all kinds of cryptic comments (at least cryptic to me; remember: I'm a dummy) about configuring things for max performance. Could someone list them out for me in painfully obvious plainness? 4) I see a recommendation to use /etc/fbtab to control access to devices, rather than being root. I log in using XDM started via /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/xdm.sh. a) What devices would a dummy want to use fbtab for? b) What device would a dummy use as the index when XDM is started this way? Please respond to me directly. Thanks! -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 978 288 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message