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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:52:40 -0800
From:      Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net>
To:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   VMware: Questions...
Message-ID:  <385C1E48.A5CE0DD4@wireless.net>

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Hi all,

First, I just wanted to say thanks to Vladimir and the other folks
working on the VMware port. Excellent work!

I have just recently installed VMware and have stumbled on a several
problems:

1. The virtual machine refuses to boot windoze boot floppies (my win95
cdrom is not bootable). I tried 4 or 5 different floppies I had laying
around and every time during the boot, the virtual machine appears to
freeze right before you would expect the dos prompt to appear. As a
result of this I had to build a virtual disk with windows on a linux box
and ftp it over to my bsd box (vmware under linux does not have any
problem with the boot floppies).

2. When running VMware I see many messages saying: "linux: syscall
setresuid is obsoleted or not implemented (pid=255)" going to the
console.

3. Perhaps related to 2., I notice that windows seems to freeze for 2-3
seconds (with disk activity during this freeze and more messages like in
2. going to the console) every 3-4 minutes. Is this somehow related to
VMware needing a /dev/rtc device? If so, is there any practical way to
satisfy this need?

One last question: I was curious what the plans for the linprocfs were?
This port seems like a major help to linux emulation!

Any thoughts, comments or suggestions would be much appreciated.
--
Regards, Devin.


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