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Date:      Sun, 6 Aug 2000 01:29:22 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        vns@delta.odessa.ua
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies?
Message-ID:  <20000806012922.P254@parish>
In-Reply-To: <200008052359.TAA00434@jupiter.delta.ny.us>; from vsilyaev@mindspring.com on Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:59:49PM -0400
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:59:49PM -0400, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote:
> In muc.lists.freebsd.emulation, you wrote:
> >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).
> 1. Checks date of the kernel, linux.ko and vmmon.ko, it should be in
> descended order.

thanks for the reply.

% ls -lrt /kernel /modules/linux.ko /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/modules/vmmon*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2179331 20 Jul 21:02 /kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    79935 20 Jul 21:03 /modules/linux.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    36639  5 Aug 13:39 /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/modules/vmmon_up.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    36800  5 Aug 13:39 /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/modules/vmmon_smp.ko
%

I don't have vmmon.ko, only vmmon_smp.ko and vmmon_up.ko. Is this
correct? (I built vmware with Makefile rev 1.19)

> 2. Create new dummy configuration, without any hardware, and try it. It
> useless, but at least you should see a Phoenix BIOS logo.
> 

I'll give this a try.

> If it doesn't help, that means you are have incompatible hardware
> (never heard before about that).

:(

> 
> --
> Regards,
> Vladimir 

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