From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Dec 18 15:51:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from wireless.net (wireless.net [207.137.156.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F7214CAA for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Received: from db.wireless.net (db.wireless.net [209.75.70.101]) by wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09871 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:56:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from wireless.net (dbm.wireless.net [192.168.0.2]) by db.wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07035 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Message-ID: <385C1E48.A5CE0DD4@wireless.net> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:52:40 -0800 From: Devin Butterfield X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: VMware: Questions... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message