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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:30:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nick Tonkin <nick@rlnt.net>
To:        Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
Cc:        zith@zith.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vmware
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210100712100.92600-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021010064239.GC2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>

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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote:
> > > > vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon
[ snip ]
> > Excuse me, but did you get networking working with win2k guest on
> > freebsd?
> > 
> > - nick
> > 
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
> > Nick Tonkin   {|8^)>
> 
> Yes, networking was up and running.  Although, it was host-based, not bridged.
> The bridged setup seemed to be broken - got all sort of errors when it was
> loading if_tap.ko.  


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 ... :(


Thanks,

Nick




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