Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:26:17 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@home.mitayai.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare2.0 on FreBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <20010109092617.B337@jupiter.delta.ny.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101090038510.1761-100000@home.mitayai.net>; from mitayai@home.mitayai.net on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:42:34AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101090038510.1761-100000@home.mitayai.net>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:42:34AM -0500, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > Hello! > I have a up-to-date FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE (as of today) with a newly > installed kernel and linux emulation port. > > I'm trying to start up VMWare using an existing disk, but it keeps > complaining about having a bad disk label or something, and i notice that > it is trying to access wdXsYZ even though i use the new adXsYZ format. > > I also notice that in /compat/linux/dev i only have hda, hdb, etc with no > slice entries... maybe this is significant? > > Anyway, if anyone can offer any advice on how to get VMWare to work with > existing disks, i'd appreciate it. You have try to use some FreeBSD related readme files coming together with vmware port, and try to make you existing partiotions works using plain disks. -- Vladimir P.S. If you lookign to use WinXXX XXX Don't forget to boot in safe mode and create different hardware profile, at other case you can easily screwed up you existing setup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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