From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Dec 18 17:44:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (smtp7.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.128.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BB615158 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:44:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vsilyaev@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2inigvq.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.67.250]) by smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA02995; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:44:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00761; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:44:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vsilyaev) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:44:39 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Devin Butterfield Subject: Re: VMware: Questions... Message-ID: <19991218204438.A706@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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). This is a strange. I have big experience with boot MS DOS 7.X (Windows 9X) floppies, and never encounter the any problem. Try to press Shift-F8 and trace the loading process. > 2. When running VMware I see many messages saying: "linux: syscall > setresuid is obsoleted or not implemented (pid=255)" going to the > console. I think you were ran vmware not from root? And it's a completely true, the setresuid syscall not implemented in linux emulator. > 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. Probably 3. and 2. are non related. > Is this somehow related to > VMware needing a /dev/rtc device? If so, is there any practical way to > satisfy this need? I don't know what exactly VMware want from a /dev/rtc. The RTC already used in kernel, so it doesn't have any chance to port a linux code. -- Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message