From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 9: 6:49 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 09:06:47 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0300937B402 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:06:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:06:32 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14DrLO-0007Yk-00; Wed, 03 Jan 2001 17:04:58 +0000 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:04:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: VMWARE In-Reply-To: <20010103183957.C42437@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hi > I have Win98, Win NT4, Win 2K and FreeBSD 4.2 all in one box. I've heard > this talk about vmware for a long time and was wondering if there is > anyone running it on 4.2 and how they went about achieving that. > > I tried a make in usr/ports/emulators/vmware but ???? No luck! There was (is? I dunno) a problem in that the vmware port went looking for a linuxutil.h (or somesuch) header file and wouldn't build after that file was removed somewhere between 4.0 and 4-stable. It's possible to fix this but the vmware2 port builds and works anyway, so if I were you I'd use vmware2. I've got it running on 4-stable with no problems. You'll need to turn on linux emulation and install the linux rtc device; apart from that, there's pretty much nothing to do. However, I don't use vmware with native filesystems (I use an emulated drive), but I've heard good things about that configuration, so I can only suggest you suck it and see. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk I shave with Occam's Razor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message