From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Jun 23 10:51:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC1437C3DB for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA248452; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:51:33 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200006231214.FAA17632@netcom.com> References: <200006231214.FAA17632@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:52:07 -0400 To: Stan Brown , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Emulation) From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Help, PLEASE, with VMWare setup (2nd try) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:14 AM -0400 6/23/00, Stan Brown wrote: > Here is what i have done: > > 1. Built the VMWare 2 port. > 2. Grabed, built, and insatlled the linuxprocfs port > mentioned by this port. If you are really following the most recent snapshot of freebsd-stable, then you do not need the separate linuxprocfs port. It is now a module in the base system. Some of the files in the vmware2 port (such as files/Hints.FreeBSD and files/README.FreeBSD) include information which has changed since those sections where written. (for all I know, it has changed again since the last time I checked -- which was about a week ago) You may need an update for linprocfs (the new name, now that it's in the base system) to get it to work right. Check the freebsd-emulation mailing list for a recent message with the subject of: "Broken linprocfs filesystem in -stable" (again, this problem may already be fixed in the up-to-the-minute snapshot of freebsd-4-stable). It MIGHT be that you have both the broken linprocfs and the linuxprocfs port in the system, and you are running into trouble because of that. The vmware2 port is "cutting edge" enough, that things keep moving around, making it challenging to find all the most-current pieces of it. Also note that once you get the vmware2 port installed, several useful files end up in /usr/local/share/doc/vmware/ > The machine is a PII 266MHZ, with 96M of memory. I have > cvsuped the latest REL_ENG4 on Wednesday of this week, also > the ports tree. A 266-MHz P-II may be a little low-powered for this, at least under FreeBSD. I have a 650-Mhz P-III system, with 256 meg, and I did get redhat installed OK under that. (ie, freebsd as the host OS, redhat as the guest OS). I also have redhat native on the same machine, and it seems to me that vmware is a little slower with a host OS of freebsd vs one of linux. On the other hand, I haven't been doing the same thing on the two installs, and haven't really done all that much on EITHER install... (to make matters worse, at the moment my redhat install is screwed up, so I can't get back to that). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message