From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 24 12:41:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1778637B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAF4A43E6E for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 2756 invoked by uid 1031); 24 Aug 2002 19:40:49 -0000 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 20:40:49 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: joe@freebsd.org, jasper@pointless.net, jcb@closedbsd.org Subject: Running VMware with vn(4) on -STABLE Message-ID: <20020824194049.GJ27670@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joe@freebsd.org, jasper@pointless.net, jcb@closedbsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Guys, I'm still using the 'use the block device major' number hack which seems to work with vn(4) too; just got VMware booting off disk images this way. I have written a MAKEDEV script which sits in my /compat/linux/dev directory now for playing with vn(4)-attached images, if anyone would like a copy, it's at http://www.incunabulum.com/code/MAKEDEV.vn. [ Oddly enough, boot0 is willing to try to boot off a PCMCIA CompactFlash adapter if it sees it as a secondary IDE device inside VMware. ] BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message