Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:04:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VMWARE Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101031701480.20932-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010103183957.C42437@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hi > I have Win98, Win NT4, Win 2K and FreeBSD 4.2 all in one box. I've heard > this talk about vmware for a long time and was wondering if there is > anyone running it on 4.2 and how they went about achieving that. > > I tried a make in usr/ports/emulators/vmware but ???? No luck! There was (is? I dunno) a problem in that the vmware port went looking for a linuxutil.h (or somesuch) header file and wouldn't build after that file was removed somewhere between 4.0 and 4-stable. It's possible to fix this but the vmware2 port builds and works anyway, so if I were you I'd use vmware2. I've got it running on 4-stable with no problems. You'll need to turn on linux emulation and install the linux rtc device; apart from that, there's pretty much nothing to do. However, I don't use vmware with native filesystems (I use an emulated drive), but I've heard good things about that configuration, so I can only suggest you suck it and see. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk I shave with Occam's Razor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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