Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:52:13 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and vmware Message-ID: <6201873e1003171352t57481efcs48f225f8f1c5e12c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA13CE3.4010803@locolomo.org> References: <4BA13CE3.4010803@locolomo.org>
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>wrote= : > Hi: > > I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried tod= ay > to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the instal= led > FreeBSD. > > This works except for three problems: > > - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries = in > the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get an error but > problem solved? > I don't use vmware, but you glabel the block devices and they would then be consistent in both. - I can't see the network devices from vmware > > - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found > I imagine the same hardware isn't presented to FreeBSD in the VM. You migh= t need to do something like have two separate xorg.conf. Same with NIC, except you might be able to just have two entries in rc.conf. What does ifconfig says on physical hw and in VM? > Any clues? > > Thanks, Erik > > > -- > Erik N=F8rgaard > Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 Adam Vande More
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