From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 12:27:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BB916A402 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 12:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [64.129.166.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA1413C45A for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 12:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from neutrino.centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l47CRHJI015285; Mon, 7 May 2007 07:27:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <463F1B25.4070405@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 07:27:17 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070420) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gore Jarold References: <292185.93126.qm@web63003.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <292185.93126.qm@web63003.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/3216/Mon May 7 02:36:02 2007 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.6 (2006-10-03) on mh1.centtech.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 6.2 - minor (?) svga problem ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 12:27:21 -0000 On 05/06/07 22:52, Gore Jarold wrote: > Scott, > > --- Scott Robbins 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