Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:19:22 -0700 From: "Bad Mamma Jamma" <mike@fbuc.org> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: problems with VMware Message-ID: <003a01c129c6$2a47b350$1200a8c0@tbird>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hey everybody, I've searched the archives and so far have not found an answer to my problem. I'm having some difficulties configuring VMware for FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. The build and version of VMware is vmware2-2.0.4.1142. My problem arises when I attempt to use Bridge Networking. The install of VMware goes fine, but when I go to "power on" to install an OS, it gives me the following error: > Could not query bridging status on /dev/vmnet0: Invalid argument > Failed to configure ethernet0. When I run kldstat, I get: > 2 1 0xc109a000 7000 linprocfs.ko > 5 1 0xc10ed000 9000 vmmon_up.ko (among others of course) but what I am not getting, which I've been told should be there, is vmnet.ko. I searched for vmnet.ko to load it manually and it doesn't exist on my system anywhere. Could this be the problem getting in the way and giving me the error up above? Also, when I run 'ifconfig vmnet0' I get: > ifconfig: interface vmnet0 does not exist And when I run 'ifconfig vmnet1' I get: > vmnet1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > inet6 fe80::2bd:a4ff:fe02:1%vmnet1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 > ether 00:bd:a4:02:00:01 So, obviously vmnet0 is not configured, or in existance. And I'm afraid I don't have enough experience at this point to really know what the heck is going on. Can anyone shed any light on this? I'm pretty much totally confused at this point. : ) Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time, Mike [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey everybody, I've searched the archives and so far have not found an answer to my problem. I'm having some difficulties configuring VMware for FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. The build and version of VMware is vmware2-2.0.4.1142. My problem arises when I attempt to use Bridge Networking. The install of VMware goes fine, but when I go to "power on" to install an OS, it gives me the following error: </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> Could not query bridging status on /dev/vmnet0: Invalid argument<BR>> Failed to configure ethernet0.<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I run kldstat, I get:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> 2 1 0xc109a000 7000 linprocfs.ko<BR>> 5 1 0xc10ed000 9000 vmmon_up.ko<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> (among others of course) but what I am not getting, which I've been told should be there, is vmnet.ko. I searched for vmnet.ko to load it manually and it doesn't exist on my system anywhere. Could this be the problem getting in the way and giving me the error up above? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, when I run 'ifconfig vmnet0' I get:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> ifconfig: interface vmnet0 does not exist<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And when I run 'ifconfig vmnet1' I get:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> vmnet1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255<BR>> inet6 fe80::2bd:a4ff:fe02:1%vmnet1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7<BR>> ether 00:bd:a4:02:00:01<BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, obviously vmnet0 is not configured, or in existance. And I'm afraid I don't have enough experience at this point to really know what the heck is going on. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anyone shed any light on this? I'm pretty much totally confused at this point. : ) Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your time, Mike</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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