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Date:      Sun, 18 Nov 2001 21:43:30 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Takanori Saneto <sanewo@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linuxulator MFC and VMware
Message-ID:  <p05101007b81e1ff6c3c7@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200111161749.aa32146@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <200111161749.aa32146@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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At 5:49 PM +0000 11/16/01, Ian Dowse wrote:
>Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
>  >
>>Corrected patch attached (and uploaded to the usual place).
>
>Ok, I tried a -stable version of that. It got past the LINUX_SIOCGIFADDR
>ioctl, but failed on the LINUX_SIOCGIFFLAGS call. I added SIOCGIFFLAGS
>conversion to linux_ioctl_special and the code that calls it, and
>vmware got past setting up the network interface but died with a
>vmware panic as soon as the guest OS tried to use the network.
>
>I then fixed two cases where the ioctl handlers should have been
>returning ENOIOCTL (one was blindly calling ioctl() with no
>translation and the other returned ENOTTY). Now it works. Below is
>the full patch I used (against -stable).

For what it's worth, I applied your patch to my stable branch (which
I had just cvsup'ed), and it did fix the problem I was seeing.  I was
able to do a fair amount of vmware-based testing today, which was good
because I needed to do that testing!

Thanks for tracking this down.  I had done a buildworld early last
week, but I didn't happen to need to run vmware until today.  It would
have been a pretty depressing day for me if I had come in and not been
able to do any of the stuff I had planned.

For what it's worth, I did also recompile the vmware2 port.  I forget
whether I came across something which suggested I needed to, or if
I was just on a roll compiling things and figured I would do that too.
[I was experimenting with portupgrade for the first time today, and
by the time I was done I had everything but XFree86 updated...]

Thanks again!

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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