From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 9:33:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from boreas.isi.edu (boreas.isi.edu [128.9.160.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3560037C4B2 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larse@ISI.EDU) Received: from [128.9.176.137] (ras37.isi.edu [128.9.176.137]) by boreas.isi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22736 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:33:18 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:33:18 -0700 Subject: Re: vmware2 and xfree86-4.0.1 From: Lars Eggert To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20000713122635.A67937@medianstrip.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 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