Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:42:24 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: A G F Keahan <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some VMware progress. More questions (was Re: latest VMware port dumping core. ) Message-ID: <14717.53632.329897.96862@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <397D5A03.74EC2582@freenet.co.uk> References: <14716.26696.719757.828831@hip186.ch.intel.com> <200007250002.UAA00521@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <14717.14343.423191.404139@whale.home-net> <397D5A03.74EC2582@freenet.co.uk>
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[ On Tuesday, July 25, A G F Keahan wrote: ] > > Have you tried booting Win98 in safe mode? Hmmmm. No, I haven't tried safe mode. I was just thrilled it booted in general. Without setting up one of their contrived "boot menu things" under windows, the only way I can go into Safe mode is by booting, then "shutting down" into safe mode, correct (I certainly don't know 100% of the in's and out's of windows ... just enough to install it to make my wife happy :). > First of all, run it in full-screen (DGA) mode, if your adapter supports > it. This would speed things up immensely. Here I'm running WinNT on Hmmm. Well, when I installed VMware and brought it up initially it went into full screen mode and then back into window'ed mode. So, I know I've seen it do it but when I tried last night it told me it couldn't for whatever reason (I had not installed VMware tools yet of course). Not helpful I know, but I'm at work and don't have the dialog box to stare at. I will certainly explore more tonight! > a Pentium III 600 with 256Mb of RAM, and no-one can tell the difference > between VMWare and the real thing. Once our local NT sysadmin had to > use my computer, and after 30 minutes he still didn't notice anything > unusual -- LOL! In fact, access to the disk and CD-ROM seems to be *THAT* is what I'm looking for :) ... so, I know it's possible ... I just gotta figure out the knobs. > This is probably because your / partition is full. VMWare creates a > large file in /tmp (slightly larger than the amount of RAM you > specified), which you can't see because it's unlink()ed. You could try > symlinking /tmp to /var/tmp or another location that has more disk > space, and see if the problem persists. Nope, I took care of that. My /tmp is a partition unto itself which is 1Gb in size. > > Hope this helps Me too :) I had asked before--is there some site somebody is building to collect fragments of information regarding VMware under FreeBSD? I mean the .Hints file is helpful but some scenarios would be useful too. The vmware site's FAQ is approaching useless because in their linux-only world, they assume that so long as you have nice IDE hardware that you install their stuff and it all just magically works because it's Linux (probably true). If there isn't such a site for Vmware under FreeBSD, I'd be happy to collect words of wisdom, sample configurations, etc. and organize it some sort of fashion. Send me those such items people and I'll do it! :) -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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