From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 21:15:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0F316A401 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:15:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gwk-fbsd@mnet-mail.de) Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEC443D45 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:15:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gwk-fbsd@mnet-mail.de) Received: from mail01.m-online.net (svr21.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601CA71AB9 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:15:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: RLhXdlYsddkqux/K5Lzy2p7yvQaxeSWEk+/4olWKKJ8= Received: from [192.168.1.100] (ppp-82-135-91-152.mnet-online.de [82.135.91.152]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254189067B for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:15:50 +0200 (CEST) From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:15:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1146086150.1589.33.camel@localhost.eu.mscsoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: linuxulator blues -- need guidance or tutor for hacking 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: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:15:52 -0000 Hi, I am recently having severe trouble using FreeBSD as a viable platform for work. I need access so some commercial software that is only available for Linux, not FreeBSD. Some of it worked earlier on, but new versions all *don't* work. And I need them for work :-( Soooo... I think I will try to find some spare time (besides kids) and try my skills at hacking to make stuff work. But I'm not a kernel hacker by any means, so I need a helping hand. And I also can't make promises as to how much time I will find. If it doesn't work out in the end, I might have to swap FreeBSD for some Linux distro, as much as I would hate that idea. So is anybody out there that would be willing to help me fix the linuxulator to a point where it works for me again? Details: Oracle: Version 9.0.1 works, but later versions (specifically 10) abort. The symptom is that sqlplus, when trying to start the database, prints "lost contact". Upon tracing with ktrace you see that it starts up an oracle process which then fails rather immediately. The trace file has hardly useful info: *** 2006-04-25 21:41:05.306 kgepop: no error frame to pop to for error 27141 *** 2006-04-25 21:41:05.307 ksedmp: internal or fatal error VMWare: Version 2.x and apparently 3.x work, but later versions are nonexistent. I need to run WinXP which does not want to work with my VMWare2. I also sometimes need to run ready-made images for VMWare 5 that are provided to me. I currently have QEMU set up which lets me at least run WinXP for office tasks, but this doesn't solve the problem of running ready-made VMWare 5 images. Besides it's quite a bit slower than VMWare, and also causes strange aborts of the Windows Explorer, e.g., from time to time. IBM DB2: That one never worked for me. However, it becomes more and more important for my work. I really need to get it going. For DB2 the error message is (once you surmount installation, or copy it from a Linux machine after installation[you need a recent Linux userland, too]) some internal error code during DB2 instance creation. No detail information. If I ktrace it I do see some system calls failing with EINVAL, though (linux_setitimer, if I recall correctly). Anyone to help me with these? Anyone that I at least can send emails to when I get stuck with hacking or simply run out of ideas what I might try next? -- Regards, Georg.