Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:35:25 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: linhnam <linhnam@ns.linhnam.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWARE Message-ID: <p0433011ab648e4a2d4a9@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011272253200.22823-100000@thuongkiet.linhnam.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011272253200.22823-100000@thuongkiet.linhnam.net>
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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
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