From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 20:35:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACB537B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA643758; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:35:27 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:35:25 -0500 To: linhnam , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: VMWARE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:07 PM -0500 11/27/00, linhnam wrote: >I am trying to install VMware on FreeBSD 4.2. I have >compiled the bridge into the kernel and installed vmware. >However, when I run vmware I am keep getting "Could >find device /dev/vmnet0" > >HELP!! This sounds familiar, but it's been so long since I've installed vmware2 that I forget the details. [okay, it's only been about 2 months, but my brain needs a much larger cache...] Did you read all the documentation that the port points you at when you install it? It puts some writeups in something like /usr/local/share/doc/vmware . Those may be a little confusing, though. Note that it's vmware itself which is looking for vmnet devices, which is to say it's looking under /usr/compat/linux/dev, and not /dev If I remember right, vmware should not be referencing /dev/vmnet0, it should be referencing /dev/vmnet1. This probably means you have the wrong networking setup in the configurations of your virtual machine. You want "host-only" networking, even though you might be tempted to think you want "bridged" networking. Yes, you do use the "bridge" option in the kernel to get "host-only" networking to work right, but as far as vmware is concerned, you want "host-only" networking. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message