From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 6 15:22:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126BE16A41F for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:22:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsclark@kingwoodcable.net) Received: from mxo4.broadbandsupport.net (mxo4.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6575B43D45 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:22:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsclark@kingwoodcable.net) Received: from atmail4.ibbsonline.com (atmail4.ibbsonline.com [209.55.3.53]) by mxo4.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297AC1FFE21 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:22:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=atmail4.ibbsonline.com) by atmail4.ibbsonline.com with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EjeZQ-0007oH-A9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:17:32 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Ron Clark To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:17:32 -0500 X-Uidl: 113388225216155188 X-Mailer: AtMail 4.11 Message-Id: <20051206152237.297AC1FFE21@mxo4.broadbandsupport.net> X-broadbandsupportnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupportnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupportnet-MailScanner-From: rsclark@kingwoodcable.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: VMWare on FreeBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rsclark@kingwoodcable.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:22:51 -0000 Hello all, I have loaded VMWare=0D from the ports collection and now trying to import a Windows XP virtual=0D machine from another system. I am having a couple of issues though. <= /p> 1.=0D The system has 512M RAM on the system, yet VMWare only "sees" 16M= in=0D the Preferences section. Is there a hack or something I can do to=0D adjust this memory ceiling? 2. When trying to fire up the virtual=0D WinXP, VMWare says that it cannot read the parent partition from the=0D file. I have adjusted permissions on all of the files in the WinXP=0D directory, to no avail. Any ideas why this is happening, or how to fix=0D / workaround? Anyone who has VMWare from the ports installed an= d=0D working, please help. Anyone with answers is more than welcome to share=0D them. Thanks in advance, Ron uname -a= FreeBSD=0D d7rnz11.swbtx.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Nov 7 13:32:0= 2=0D UTC 2005 rclark@d7rnz11.swbtx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/= sys/D7RNZ11 i386 ls /usr/ports/distfiles/ | grep VMwareVMware-workstation-3.2.1-2242.tar.gz System is Dell Optiplex GX26= 0 with 512k RAM