From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 12:01:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD1516A407 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:01:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xotazu@cvc.uab.es) Received: from istanbul.uab.es (istanbul.uab.es [158.109.168.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A5C43D53 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:01:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xotazu@cvc.uab.es) Received: from istanbul.uab.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by istanbul.uab.es (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.10 (built Jan 6 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J8P00HIYYCWNMC0@istanbul.uab.es> for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:53:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from cvc.uab.es ([158.109.4.2]) by istanbul.uab.es (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.10 (built Jan 6 2005)) with SMTP id <0J8P004QPYCV9TR1@istanbul.uab.es> for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:53:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from cvc131.uab.es by cvc.uab.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA19542; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:50:19 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:53:31 +0100 From: Xavier Otazu In-reply-to: <20061113165515.62d382f5@cvc131.uab.es> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Message-id: <20061114125331.61da4646@cvc131.uab.es> Organization: CVC MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.8.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20061113120020.59C9F16A4EA@hub.freebsd.org> <20061113165515.62d382f5@cvc131.uab.es> Subject: vmware3 does not recognize hard disk raw device X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:01:22 -0000 In may last message, I made a mistake. I mean freebsd 6.x, not 3.x Xavier On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:55:15 +0100 Xavier Otazu wrote: > > > Hello: > > I've installed vmware3 on freebsd 3.x from fresh ports. > > When configuring a new virtual machine, it tells me that all > the /dev/hd? devices (i.e. /compat/linux/devhd?) are not read/write. > > I made a soft link from this device (in /compat/linux/dev/hda) > to /dev/ad0. Then it recognizes read/write acces. But when powering on > the machine it tells me that it is not a raw device and it does not > boot. > > I have > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 86 Nov 13 12:02 /dev/ad0 > > and > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Nov 9 > 21:21 /compat/linux/dev/hda@ -> /dev/ad0 > > The original hda device created by the port is > > brwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 0, 0x00010002 Jun 12 > 21:12 /compat/linux/dev/hda_orig* > > > I tried to create it using the minor and major characters 0 and 86, as > in /dev/ad0, but it do not produce a working device. > > I have linux, aio, acpi and linprocfs modules loaded. > > The /dev/ad0 disk I wan to boot in vmware is different from the one in > which FreeBSD is installed (/dev/ad3) > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance > > Xavier