Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 15:56:52 -0700 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@sftw.com> To: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, Robert Withrow <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com>, John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? Message-ID: <398F3EB3.1E1F2B5B@sftw.com> References: <200008071936.NAA11161@benson>
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Steve Jorgensen wrote: > I used to see the same behavior when I let vmware use /tmp on my > small root partition, because there wasn't enough diskspace to > hold its temporary file. My linux emulation system is under > /usr/compat/linux which is a much larger disk partition, so when > I created a tmp in that directory with the same permissions as > /tmp, vmware worked just fine. > > Steve Be aware when you do this that it may have subtle, undesirable effects on other Linux apps. Most notably, if you print from Linux Netscape, the print job will go into /compat/linux/tmp, but lpr will look for it in /tmp/ and fail. This, and other helpful advice is available in the port's hints file, which if memory serves gets installed in share/doc/vmware/Hints.FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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