Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:46:56 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware Message-ID: <20021010154656.GA3723@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210100712100.92600-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com> References: <20021010064239.GC2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210100712100.92600-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com>
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:30:39AM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote: > > There do not appear to be any concise definitive instructions for setting > up vmware2 on FreeBSD. > > Most seem to say that one should specify netgraph bridging while building > VMWare but host-only networking when configuring a virtual machine. > > I've done that (and every other possible combination, I think!) but still > no joy. It's closer than it was but now hangs _after_ the virtual machine > has apparently started to boot (menu buttons change, etc) with: > > Could not get interface address for vmnet1: Cannot assign requested > address. Failed to configure ethernet0 > > This is after following another bit of advice to make sure the IP address > assigned to vmnet1 is not in use anywhere else. > > Any hints to get me to the promised land? > > ---- > > Another weird problem is that vmware refuses to start with 'Cannot open > display' every time I start X ... I have to use /stand/sysinstall to edit > my XFree86 config and change the screen specs, then restart X and restart > vmware for it to be happy. this happens every time. I'm thinking I'll have > to write a script to do it automatically ... :( You're right, the documentation is pretty lame - even that found at vmware's web site. I had found a lot of docs saying that for FreeBSD you should select bridged networking when installing vmware, but then select host-based networking when setting up the guest and that this config whould somehow work for bridged networking. This setup never worked for me and I abandoned it soon. I reinstalled vmware (since I couldn't get the vmware-config.pl script to work) and selected host-based networking. I selected an IP address on a completely different network than any other on my host, in my case 172.16.0.1. Then when setting up the guest os I also selected host-based networking. Once I had win2k installed I simply went to the network setup and set it up as 172.15.0.2 and I was able to ping interface vmnet1 on my host machine. As far as X goes, I was just running it in 640x480 mode. It kept barking at me that I needed to install vmare-tools in order to run at a higher resolution. I installed vmware-tools and played around with it, but as soon as I looked at the XF86Config file that it wanted me to install I quickly pkg_deinstall'ed it. I also had to uncomment the following line in my XF86Config: # Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension as I was getting errors messages when launching the guest OS. All of this is from memory and may not be very helpful. If you're still having problems I can reinstall vmware2 and write down step by step what I do to get it working. Let me know... Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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