From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 27 12:35:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2F514EE5; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:35:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vsilyaev@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2ive63o.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.24.120]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28389; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 15:35:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA01410; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 15:35:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vsilyaev) Message-Id: <199911272035.PAA01410@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: VMware 1.1 for Linux on the FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199911272015.VAA08599@peedub.muc.de> from Gary Jennejohn at "Nov 27, 1999 09:15:43 pm" To: Gary Jennejohn Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 15:35:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: Mike Smith , "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" X-Reply-To-Back: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" X-Touch-Of-Mind: vns@delta.odessa.ua X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi > >This is great stuff, unfortunately VMware 1.1.1-330 isn't available > >anymore. Any chance of you updating your port to work with 1.1.2-364? > > > > I just grabbed VMware-1.1.1-330.tar.gz using his port, no problem. > > Couldn't run vmware, it complains that it can't find /dev/tty0 and > exits. Did you read section about Full Screen mode from README.FreeBSD file: - Fullscreen modes VMware would not even started session when our DISPLAY variable will be like ':0.0'. So to run VMware on the local display you are need to change DISPLAY environment to something like 'localhost:0.0'. For example use the following commands (for bourne shell): DISPLAY=localhost${DISPLAY};export DISPLAY Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message