Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:57:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij) Cc: orlando@break.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 Message-ID: <200601261557.HAA80840@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20060126154454.GA89025@gvr.gvr.org> from Guido van Rooij at "Jan 26, 2006 04:44:54 pm"
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And hello Guido, been many years! > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:10:29AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > I have seen many reports of problems, and a few suggested > > work arounds, which I tried, but no one saying they have vmware3 > > running correctly on either 4.11 or 5.4 systems. Of cource > > you never hear about what works, only about what is broken :-(. > > > > Sorry about that ;-() > > > I have managed to get it running here by going back to the > > old linux_base-7.1. I am in the process of doing further > > regression testing to find out exactly when it broke, it > > was some time between linux_base-7.1 and linux_base-8.8. > > I have the following running config: > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 22 10:42 /var/db/pkg/linux_base-8-8.0_4/ Okay, thats a big help, as I started at -8-8.0_10, I can try building from scratch at this version and see what I end up with. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 9 17:07 /var/db/pkg/vmware3-3.2.1.2242_10,1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 23 2004 /var/db/pkg/rtc-2004.02.24.1_4/ > > On: > FreeBSD beck.gvr.org 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #8: Thu Apr 7 21:44:31 CEST 2005 guido@beck.gvr.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MOUSE i386 > > I only run w2k as guest-os. Do you have any ethernet devices configured? or cdrom devices? I think the snag come up when your using these. The code does kinda work, but you well get panics on shutdown. Also the configure wizard is broken due to df -T breakage caused by the new linuxlator -- Rod Grimes freebsd@freebsd.org
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