From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Aug 7 12:36:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from charon.khoral.com (charon.khoral.com [209.75.155.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83A7437B672; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@khoral.com) Received: from zen.alb.khoral.com by charon.khoral.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 7 Aug 2000 19:36:29 UT Received: from benson (benson.alb.khoral.com [10.1.2.11]) by zen.alb.khoral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19443; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:36:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen Message-Id: <200008071936.NAA11161@benson> Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? To: marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:36:12 -0600 (MDT) Cc: bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com (Robert Withrow), jjreynold@home.com (John Reynolds), emulation@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000805150815.C254@parish> from "Mark Ovens" at Aug 05, 2000 03:08:15 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 >> >> -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message