From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Dec 5 8: 9:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from smtp5.mindspring.com (smtp5.mindspring.com [207.69.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBFD14DCA for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 08:09:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vsilyaev@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2iveatn.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.43.183]) by smtp5.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA31378; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:09:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00500; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:09:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vsilyaev) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:09:30 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , louie@TransSys.COM, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, groudier@club-internet.fr Subject: Re: VMware and CDROM was (Re: Linux ioctl not implemented error) Message-ID: <19991205110930.A469@jupiter.delta.ny.us> References: <19991204210435.D881@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <199912051018.LAA66515@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912051018.LAA66515@yedi.iaf.nl>; from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl on Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:18:26AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:18:26AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > About unmount. It's not so important, I had mounted cdrom in FreeBSD > > and at the same time mount cdrom and read files from it in the linux session. > > You probably saw my "yep, success!" email from a short while ago. > In the meantime I had another failure. But also I think I know what makes > the difference: > > the amount of memory one specifies for VMware. In the failure case I had > 16 Mb, in the success case I had 8Mb spec'ed. This is on a Pentium100 > box with 32Mb RAM. Going back to 8Mb for VMware made the CDROM re-appear. It sounds very funny. And I tested in my box, and don't encountered any problem with 16Mb virtual machine. > > I'll investigate a bit further. I'm interested in the result of this investigation. -- Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message