From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 18:05:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF40D16A46E for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (merlin.alerce.com [64.62.142.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC6213C45E for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E7B33C70 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:38:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postfix.alerce.com (unknown [128.177.16.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "satchel.alerce.com", Issuer "alerce.com" (verified OK)) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD9233C6F for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:38:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by postfix.alerce.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 79DA4DE134; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:39:19 -0400 (EDT) From: George Hartzell To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.1 Message-Id: <20070614173919.79DA4DE134@postfix.alerce.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:39:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: vmware fusion and 8-way Mac Pro and FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:05:27 -0000 This is more of an introductory query than a bug report, so apologies if it's shy on details. I've been trying to use VMWare's Fusion on a dual-4-core Mac Pro w/ 4GB of RAM and haven't had any luck getting it to work reliably. Beta4, which I started with, will do an install of -STABLE from an release or snapshot iso image, but at random points in 'make buildworld" either the C compiler or the shared library loader seg faults and things stop. I tried installing -CURRENT from the most recent snapshot, csup'ing, and doing a build world but it dies quickly due to the symbol versioning changes. UPDATING tells one what not to do because it will cause just the problem, but I'm not clear how to work past it. With beta3 I can do an install of -STABLE from the ISO image, but the virtual machine hangs whilst cs'uping. If you restart things enough time, you can get through it but then it to hang during builds. I've tried running with one or two virtual cpu's enabled, without any difference. I couldn't find any relevant comments on the Vmware Fusion discussion forum. Is it working for anyone? g.