Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:36:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> To: marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens) Cc: bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com (Robert Withrow), jjreynold@home.com (John Reynolds), emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? Message-ID: <200008071936.NAA11161@benson> In-Reply-To: <20000805150815.C254@parish> from "Mark Ovens" at Aug 05, 2000 03:08:15 PM
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I used to see the same behavior when I let vmware use /tmp on my
small root partition, because there wasn't enough diskspace to
hold its temporary file. My linux emulation system is under
/usr/compat/linux which is a much larger disk partition, so when
I created a tmp in that directory with the same permissions as
/tmp, vmware worked just fine.
Steve
Mark Ovens wrote
>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:42:30AM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote:
>> > Thanks for the info. Actually, late last night I actually flopped in
>> > the correct direction (probably accidentally). I'll note where your
>> > stuff differs from mine:
>> >
>> > :- First off, is the NT/BSD boot disk an IDE disk? I hope so. Even VMware
>> > :- themselves say booting a VM from scsi is at best experimental. I would
>> > :- seriously doubt it would work under FreeBSD, but maybe
>> >
>> > It's scsi, and it seems to work.
>> >
>>
>> I've been following this thread and learnt quite a bit from it, thanks
>> guys, however I *still* can't get vmware to run :(
>>
>> It starts up but as soon as I click the Power On button the vmware
>> window turns black and the whole machine locks solid (no keyboard or
>> mouse response, and the desktop clock and xtimer stop) and after ~15
>> secs the machine spontaneously reboots (which is a PITA as it fsck's
>> the disks every time).
>>
>> There is no clue in the vmware log, or /var/adm/messages, as to the
>> cause.
>>
>> I've tried using a virtual disk and (currently) a plain disk (SCSI).
>> I've set up with no CD-ROM and floppy (to minimize possible causes)
>> but still it won't run.
>>
>> I originally built it with the latest port (Makefile rev 1.20) but in
>> another thread here it implied/suggested that the previous Makefile
>> (rev 1.19) may be better, so I grabbed that and tried it - no
>> different.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on the cause of these crashes? Also, I have
>> no .nvram file. Is it supposed to be created by hand? If so, what
>> goes in it?
>>
>> # uname -a
>> FreeBSD parish 4.1-RC FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: Thu Jul 20 20:54:53 BST 2000
>> root@parish:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARISH i386
>>
>> # cat win95.{cfg,hba}
>> #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
>> config.version = 2
>>
>> # No cdrom installed
>>
>>
>> # Disk Drive Info
>> scsi0:0.present = TRUE
>> scsi0:0.deviceType = "plainDisk"
>> scsi0:0.fileName = "win95.hba"
>> scsi0.present = TRUE
>>
>> # No floppy installed
>>
>> floppy0.present = FALSE
>>
>> # No networking installed
>>
>> # Memory size
>> memsize = 32
>>
>> # Nvram
>> nvram = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.nvram
>>
>> # Log file
>> log.fileName = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.log
>>
>> # Hints
>> guestOS = win95
>>
>> DRIVETYPE scsi
>> CYLINDERS 527
>> HEADS 255
>> SECTORS 63
>> ACCESS "disk.mbr" 0 63
>> ACCESS "/dev/rda0s1" 63 1044162
>> ACCESS "/dev/null" 1044225 7422030
>>
>>
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