Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:02:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Tonkin <nick@rlnt.net> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210092201570.91340-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com> In-Reply-To: <20021010044807.GB2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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Excuse me, but did you get networking working with win2k guest on
freebsd?
- nick
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Nick Tonkin {|8^)>
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote:
> > vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon
> >
> > The highest OS I've tested it with is windows 98.
> >
> > the higher os's do something ssid or something or other (advanced cpu
> > instructions) which cause the guest os to puke.
> >
> > SweeTLeaF wrote:
> >
> > >I am wanting to try VMware to emulate XP and have a few questions for
> > >those who are using it.
> > >
> > >Currently i am booting between , freebsd, redhat and XP. These OS's
> > >are already installed on their own native partitions. This is my first
> > >question, I want to use freebsd as my host OS for vmware: Can i tell
> > >vmware to use the already existing NTFS partition and ext3 "linux"
> > >partition like you can in wine or do i have to reinstall both linux
> > >and XP under vmware emulation? I really don't want to reinstall XP
> > >and Redhat as they are all setup and running great. If this is
> > >feasible please elaborate or point to reference material as the vmware
> > >guide suggest you have to install all the virtual hosts OS's under
> > >vmware emulation.
> > >
> > >Memory: I have a athlon 1800+ with 256/ddr 2100 ram...is this enough
> > >to run all 3 OS's @ the same time, and if not what would be the
> > >recommended amount?
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance for any help.
> > >
> > >By the way is 4.7 release out? The reason i ask is because i see the
> > >4.7 dir on the ftp, but there is no disk 1 there is 2,3,4 but no 1.
> > >The first disk says 4.7rc2.....is this the first disk for the final
> > >4.7 rel?
>
> I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days ago,
> everything seemed to work find including networking. However, I unistalled
> the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - both vmware and win2k. By the
> way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to get at the contents of *.exe
> self-extracting archives. This problem was what led me to fiddle with vmware
> in the first place.
>
> Nathan
>
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