Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 15:08:15 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com> Cc: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? Message-ID: <20000805150815.C254@parish> In-Reply-To: <200007271242.IAA16126@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM>; from bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:42:30AM -0400 References: <jjreynold@home.com> <200007271242.IAA16126@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:42:30AM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote:
> Thanks for the info. Actually, late last night I actually flopped in
> the correct direction (probably accidentally). I'll note where your
> stuff differs from mine:
>
> :- First off, is the NT/BSD boot disk an IDE disk? I hope so. Even VMware
> :- themselves say booting a VM from scsi is at best experimental. I would
> :- seriously doubt it would work under FreeBSD, but maybe
>
> It's scsi, and it seems to work.
>
I've been following this thread and learnt quite a bit from it, thanks
guys, however I *still* can't get vmware to run :(
It starts up but as soon as I click the Power On button the vmware
window turns black and the whole machine locks solid (no keyboard or
mouse response, and the desktop clock and xtimer stop) and after ~15
secs the machine spontaneously reboots (which is a PITA as it fsck's
the disks every time).
There is no clue in the vmware log, or /var/adm/messages, as to the
cause.
I've tried using a virtual disk and (currently) a plain disk (SCSI).
I've set up with no CD-ROM and floppy (to minimize possible causes)
but still it won't run.
I originally built it with the latest port (Makefile rev 1.20) but in
another thread here it implied/suggested that the previous Makefile
(rev 1.19) may be better, so I grabbed that and tried it - no
different.
Can anyone shed any light on the cause of these crashes? Also, I have
no .nvram file. Is it supposed to be created by hand? If so, what
goes in it?
# uname -a
FreeBSD parish 4.1-RC FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: Thu Jul 20 20:54:53 BST 2000
root@parish:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARISH i386
# cat win95.{cfg,hba}
#!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
config.version = 2
# No cdrom installed
# Disk Drive Info
scsi0:0.present = TRUE
scsi0:0.deviceType = "plainDisk"
scsi0:0.fileName = "win95.hba"
scsi0.present = TRUE
# No floppy installed
floppy0.present = FALSE
# No networking installed
# Memory size
memsize = 32
# Nvram
nvram = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.nvram
# Log file
log.fileName = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.log
# Hints
guestOS = win95
DRIVETYPE scsi
CYLINDERS 527
HEADS 255
SECTORS 63
ACCESS "disk.mbr" 0 63
ACCESS "/dev/rda0s1" 63 1044162
ACCESS "/dev/null" 1044225 7422030
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