Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:23:00 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: emulation@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more VMware quirks/questions - scsi CD-ROM -> emulated ATAPI Message-ID: <14720.50260.568637.275395@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20000727170101.B87100@panzer.kdm.org> References: <14720.37288.299262.35678@whale.home-net> <20000727170101.B87100@panzer.kdm.org>
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[ On Thursday, July 27, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: ] > > Yes, it's pretty much the same problem -- sysinstall thinks the device > isn't there if it can't open it. In fact, the problem is just that you > don't have a disk in it. > > I'm sure other people have the same problem, since the cd(4) driver acts > the same way for any drive when there is no media present. could this be changed maybe with a sysctl variable or something, or is there a fundamental reason why it "should" work this way? > There may be a way to do something different, but you'd have to look into > the 'vmmon' module to figure it out. > > What is the vmmon module, anyway? Where is the source? (I don't know much > about vmware.) http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/ vmmon-freebsd-0.97-b1.tar.gz is the "latest" that the port fetches. This is freebsd-only code plus a patch for the vmmon code from VMware. So far, I'm pretty happy with it--I need to squash a few more bugs and figure a few more things out about it, but they might actually get my $$$ for this one ;-) -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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