Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:03:18 +0100 From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Vladimir N Silyaev <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions on Vmware2 (or vmware3?) on current Message-ID: <20020218080318.A339@laptop.6bone.nl> In-Reply-To: <p05101405b893836685ab@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:58:57PM -0500 References: <20011110222046.A54582@server.vns.oc.ca.ua> <20011112072336.A60470@laptop.6bone.nl> <p05101401b892222fbcca@[128.113.24.47]> <20020215094528.E50440@laptop.6bone.nl> <p05101405b893836685ab@[128.113.24.47]>
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Hi Garance, On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:58:57PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >I have only run it with 6.1. > >The rtc driver doesn't seem to work. However, afaik you only > >need that for win98 guest. > > A friend of mine says it works fine for him with linux_base-7.1, > although he is only using it on -stable. That's good to hear. Never tried it actually. > > > When installing vmware2, it asks if I wanted to use netgraph > >> bridging. I said 'yes', as I'm sure that's what I did under > >> stable. It then asked which interface did I want to bind that > >> to? My ethernet card is fxp0. Should I answer that as 'fxp0', > >> or as '/dev/fxp0'? > > > >I didn't use bridging, host only however works fine for me. > > Hrm. Well, at the moment it seems to be something in the world of > netgraph setup which is killing me. I expect it is something which > is intuitively obvious to someone who understands what netgraph is > doing, and what commands to type into "nghook" so vmware can do > what it wants to do. That someone would not be me... Sad to say I > am not a networking/netgraph expert, and if the truth be told I am > not eager to become one just to get vmware running. Sorry, I never used the netgraph bridging before so I can't really help you with that. I might try it in the near future just for testing when the current problems with vmware2 are fixed. > I do have NETGRAPH in the kernel, and the script installed in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh does look like it's *trying* to setup > the right network from there, but it dies at the line which does > the 'echo -n > $dev_vmnet' claiming that there is no such device or > address (even though there does seem to be the right special-device > defined at that point, which is just /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 ). If you have DEVFS in your kernel, then /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 should be a symlink to /dev/vmnet1. > If I say "no" to netgraph bridging, will the guest-OS's running > under vmware be able to show up as a separate IP address on the > real network? No, but you would be able to use ip-masquerading. > >Summarizing: vmware2 works fine under -current at the moment > >except for one problem that it can only be run once due to > >some thing we are looking into with the tap device. > > Is this "only once per system reboot", or is it "only one instance > can be running at any given time"? Only once per system reboot. But that is being worked on. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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