Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:30:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004271017460.34011-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004262357210.323-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm still messing around trying to get vmware2 to operate. I decided to > try to reinstall the ports/emulators/linux_base port, and deinstalling it > took out the linux/dev directory. Reinstalling it did not put it back. I just bought and installed vmware2 on a very fresh 4.0-STABLE system. /compat/linux/dev is mostly bare except for hda, hdb (which I don't use), rtc, null, and some tty* links. > I have *some* of the devices back, but I don't know enough about what > Linux devices are, to stick all the stuff back in. I need my scsi disks, > I think, and my cdrom is scsi too. How about my ttys ... I have some of > my tty's in there, but I'm not at all sure I have softlinked things > correctly, because I don't know what Linux is expecting. I didn't softlink any devices by hand, and everything seems to be working fine. I have a physical disk that I already had NT4 Server installed on that I am now running under vmware. To get that to work, I simply set up a "plain disk" with the reported geometry for the drive, like so: ad1: 4112MB <WDC AC24300L> [8912/15/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA33 DRIVETYPE IDE CYLINDERS 8912 HEADS 15 SECTORS 63 ACCESS "/dev/ad1" 0 8321840 Notice I used the FreeBSD device, not a linux device. It doesn't seem to care. > Anyone running vmware with scsi disks (and cdrom) mind sending me a ls -l > of their linux/dev? In fact, it might not be a bad idea to send to the > list, because I couldn't find this info in the mail archives anywhere. Would vmware know the difference between, for example, /dev/ad1 and /dev/da1? If not, SCSI or IDE devices should work equally well. I'll find out as well once I get this working at home, since I have SCSI disks there. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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