Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:21:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: VMware 1.1 for Linux on the FreeBSD Message-ID: <199911280321.TAA97385@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:14:40 EST." <199911280114.UAA03593@mindspring.com>
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> > Cool, thanks! Next step will be to work out how we can either fix their > > wizard or tweak the setup so that it's not offered as an option. > > I think, currently we are have a much more important leaks. > - virtual networking > - fullscreen mode > - floppy disk detection > - serial ports > - support for other hardware: parallel port, sound card Ok. Sounds like a reasonable set of priorities. I would add "correct detection of available memory", since it's claiming that only 32MB is available on a 128MB machine. However, I'm currently having no luck with the configuration editor either; I can successfully edit the configuration, but when saving it VMware dies with (USER) Exiting on unexpected signal. Panic without a VM after writing just one line to the configuration file: #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware I note also that you don't install vmware setuid. Probably a good idea, but one that will trip a few people up. BTW, having looked more closely at the test you use for detecting whether the right linux module is loaded I'm not so sure it's entirely good: it does presume that the kernel sources are installed and that the running linux module was built from /sys. However, I can't come up with a better simple solution, so I'm not going to complain. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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