Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:33:18 -0700 From: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vmware2 and xfree86-4.0.1 Message-ID: <B5933D5D.1566%larse@isi.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000713122635.A67937@medianstrip.net>
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> On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:44:17AM -0400, Matthew Whalen wrote: >> >> I have a new machine that I'm trying to configure. It's very similar >> to my regular home machine (PIII 700 vs K7 700). They both run >> 4.0-stable (home was build last about 1 month ago, new machine yesterday). >> I have xf86 4 on this new machine, and 3 at home. >> >> My vmware on the new machine dies cathing with a SIGSEGV and "Abort trap" >> being printed to the screen. I know that vmware doesn't officially support >> XF86 4, but this doesn't really sound a lot like an Xserver problem >> to me. There isn't much in the vmware log to note. Has anyone tried >> vmware2 with XF86 4 yet? If so, did you get the same result? Is there >> something else going on? > > i've had the same result. i'm also running 4.0-stable built within > the last few days and xfree86 4.0.1, on a sony vaio z505hs laptop. > > on my system at least, there appears to be a correlation with disk > modes -- virtual machines configured with raw disks abort on boot, > virtual machines with virtual disks work fine. I can second problems with raw disks, also with XFree86-4.0.1 & FreeBSD-4.0-STABLE. (Haven't tried virtual disks under XFree86-4.0.1 yet, but they used to worked under XFree86-4.0.) Lars PS: I've never used VMware in its native environments (Linux/NT) - is there a performance impact in running it under FreeBSD's Linux emulation? -- Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/~larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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