Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 02:35:06 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> Cc: Vladimir N Silyaev <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions on Vmware2 (or vmware3?) on current Message-ID: <p05101428b89f94e9a00c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020218080318.A339@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20011110222046.A54582@server.vns.oc.ca.ua> <20011112072336.A60470@laptop.6bone.nl> <p05101401b892222fbcca@[128.113.24.47]> <20020215094528.E50440@laptop.6bone.nl> <p05101405b893836685ab@[128.113.24.47]> <20020218080318.A339@laptop.6bone.nl>
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At 8:03 AM +0100 2/18/02, Mark Santcroos wrote: >Hi Garance, > >On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:58:57PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I do have NETGRAPH in the kernel, and the script installed in >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh does look like it's *trying* to setup >> the right network from there, but it dies at the line which does >> the 'echo -n > $dev_vmnet' claiming that there is no such device or >> address (even though there does seem to be the right special-device >> defined at that point, which is just /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 ). > >If you have DEVFS in your kernel, then /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 >should be a symlink to /dev/vmnet1. Well, I had misunderstood the point you were trying to make here. I thought you meant that if I had DEVFS in the kernel, then *that* would cause /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 to be a symlink into /dev. Thanks to comments from a few other people, I realized that what you meant was that *I* had to remove /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 and then *I* had to re-create it as a symlink into /dev. I have now done that, and vmware2 is working under current for me (with the netgraph stuff working just fine, too). Looking under /compat/linux/dev/*, I notice that almost everything in there (for me at least) is a symlink back to /dev, except for "hda", "hdb", "null", "rtc", and "vmmon". null is presumably working fine, but I wonder of rtc and vmmon should also be done as symlinks back into /dev ... Anyway, thanks. Now I can stick with running current most of the time, instead of having to reboot into stable to run vmware. This is very helpful! -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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