From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 14:38:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BABA16A417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:38:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itmngr@cooperationireland.org) Received: from smtp3.irishbroadband.ie (smtp3.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD64A13C4D3 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:38:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itmngr@cooperationireland.org) Received: from [62.231.53.178] (helo=mail.cooperationireland.org) by smtp3.irishbroadband.ie with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1J0eEJ-000GNc-Jn; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:31:03 +0000 Received: from [10.0.1.18] ([83.141.106.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.cooperationireland.org (8.14.2/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lB7EaM5R012702; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:36:22 GMT (envelope-from itmngr@cooperationireland.org) Message-Id: From: Michael Doyle To: Doug Poland In-Reply-To: <47581997.50805@polands.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:38:31 +0000 References: <826B7EE2-6D83-498C-A02D-573448359547@cooperationireland.org> <47581997.50805@polands.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/5028/Fri Dec 7 09:05:22 2007 on mail.cooperationireland.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on mail.cooperationireland.org X-Scan-Signature: 10cfd94ce70d5f932765db6fc32b4170 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:38:52 -0000 On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: > Michael Doyle wrote: >> Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion >> on a new MacBook Pro ? > I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion > >> If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I >> have tried this and failed. > > > Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 as the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, .... install the "Developer" package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools ("make all" succeeded, but "make install" failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? Mike