Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 07:27:17 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Gore Jarold <gore_jarold@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 6.2 - minor (?) svga problem ... Message-ID: <463F1B25.4070405@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <292185.93126.qm@web63003.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <292185.93126.qm@web63003.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On 05/06/07 22:52, Gore Jarold wrote: > Scott, > > --- Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > >> I have a little howto on vmware at >> >> >> http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1534 >> >> The only thing I see missing with your description >> is that sometimes, >> I've found I had to restart after adding the device >> hint mentioned in >> that article. Also, did you start the shell? (It >> was in /usr/X11R6 but >> if you did /usr/local it should be in >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ >> >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh start >> (or, if you took defaults /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d) > > > Ok, I put the hint: > > hint.apic.0.disabled="1" > > into /boot/device.hints > > and then rebooted. But the error persists. > > No, I do not start with the 001.vmware.sh script - > when I run it with the 'start' argument, all it does > is echo the word: > > VMware > > and does not do anything. I can start vmware by > simply typing "vmware" at a prompt, but the script > itself does nothing at all (except echo the word > "VMware"). THe same is true if I run it with an > absolute path: > > /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh start That command will only work if you have vmware_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf. Eric
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