From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 6 12:29:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C733016BCEA for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:29:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from mailhost.tao.org.uk (transwarp.tao.org.uk [87.74.4.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4100743D49 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:29:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genius.pact.cpes.susx.ac.uk [139.184.130.240]) by mailhost.tao.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D32B6310; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:29:39 +0100 (BST) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 9AC214071; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:29:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:29:33 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Sean Welch Message-ID: <20060606122933.GA1272@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20060601021559.GA4977@SlimPhys.welchsmnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060601021559.GA4977@SlimPhys.welchsmnet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Running vmware3 port under 6.1-RELEASE with ACPI and APIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:29:52 -0000 --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:15:59PM -0500, Sean Welch wrote: > I've been happily using vmware3 for some time now but I find that I > can't use it under 6.1-RELEASE because of the dreaded hang on > power-on. >=20 > I took a look in the port directory and found the recommendation to > disable ACPI and/or APIC. Unfortunately, doing either will cause my > laptop (Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi) to freeze during boot. >=20 > Does anyone have any suggestions for getting this to run? It runs > perfectly under my installation of 6.0-RELEASE without disabling > anything. >=20 > I'd be happy to do any experimentation necessary to get this figured > out. Well, I don't know if this helps, but I'm running it sucessfully under: FreeBSD genius.tao.org.uk 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #36: Su= n Apr 23 21:04:59 BST 2006 joe@genius.tao.org.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENIU= S2 i386 using these ports: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7/ linux_base-suse-9.2/ vmware-guestd-4.5.2.8848_2/ vmware-tools-4.5.2.8848_2/ =20 vmware3-3.2.1.2242_12,1/ I've got this defined in /etc/make.conf OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=3Dsuse-9.2 I can confirm that I do have acpi enabled. Joe --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkSFdSwACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYTgACeKdti0e68wTJgqNvy3ANvCPgH bjEAniRIfejd9reHDTGgnrGDYMTitAqi =VEpl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--