Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:36:58 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Krzysztof Parzyszek <kparz@iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware for FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011240932570.22925-100000@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001124023403.A7169@buchanan-181-249.stures.iastate>
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On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Krzysztof Parzyszek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:43:29AM -0500, Tim McMillen wrote: > > Are you able to use it as a normal user or is that not a good idea anyway? > > I guess it's not a good idea to run it as root... I can run it as > a normal user. > > > It tells me failed to open /dev/hda permission denied. Of course that > > doesn't exist it's just because of linux emulation. What device does it > > refer to? My hard drive ad0? > > When exactly does it complain? As soon as I try to power on the virtual machine. Perhaps I made a mistake in setting up the directory that the machine used as it's virtual disk. I'll be out of town this weekend without a chance to work on it, but I'll try to make a few changes in the way I configure vmware. Thanks, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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