Date: 12 Jul 2003 12:07:37 -0700 From: "Scott M. Likens" <damm@fpsn.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding VMWare 3.0 Port and an odd bug that i've been getting over and over again... Message-ID: <1058036856.7716.1.camel@acheron.livid.de> In-Reply-To: <1058031637.50638.5.camel@acheron.livid.de> References: <1058021485.1110.107.camel@prophecy> <1058031637.50638.5.camel@acheron.livid.de>
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--MIMEStream=_0+218026_3654188375240_15839913791 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-yXPXzTFxRiQLo/fi2lA7" Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-yXPXzTFxRiQLo/fi2lA7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 10:40, Scott M. Likens wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 07:51, Christopher Nehren wrote: > > The "not implemented" error message suggests to me that the VM (in this > > case, Win2K) is attempting to perform an operation that the emulation > > software (or its underlying operating system -- in this case, Linux > > 2.4.2 under FreeBSD emulation) doesn't know how to perform. I received = a > > similar message when attempting to install Windows XP on VMWare 2.x -- > > however, IIRC, mine didn't crash or require a hard reboot. My hypothesi= s > > is that -- were this a real, modern Linux machine -- that operation > > would succeed. However, since this is a binary emulation situation (one > > that itself manages its own layer of binary emulation), and one that > > more directly interfaces with the underlying hardware than most Linux > > emulated programs, the likelihood for such an operation to fail > > increases. As far as I understand it, the solution involves more fully > > implementing the Linux emulation. >=20 > Actually it's during shutdown that this bug occurs >=20 > It's quite annoying on top of the 'rtc.ko' wanting to dump and creating > a infinite loop panic at shutdown isn't that great either. >=20 > I know i'm not the only person experiencing this, just the only person > who cares. >=20 > So i've come to this conclusion, I'll just need linux. >=20 > You are right thought it's obviously a call it's making like sync() i > imagine that we arn't implementing properly in the emulation. So when > VMWare try's to make this what should exist call, it's not really there > and fudges up. >=20 > Thus leaving crap in the kernel i imagine, and thus creating the > problem. >=20 >=20 > > Either this, or it could just be a plain bug in VMWare -- though I've > > learned from experience that it's always best to blame oneself before > > assuming others are at fault. Nah it's still there with VFS_AIO compiled into the kernel. Obviously it's more then meats the eye, but I don't know where it lacks it, thus why I asked the list to see if I missed it. --=20 "I think we ought to be out there doing what we do best - making large holes in other people's countries." - George Carlin --=-yXPXzTFxRiQLo/fi2lA7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/EFx4D2+AYUq0LpARAs8ZAJ9dFm/ktkMuyflGa6gGNyBidJFLHQCghfVo y7FRv/rxYhDx156oKyvQDak= =zo2/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-yXPXzTFxRiQLo/fi2lA7-- --MIMEStream=_0+218026_3654188375240_15839913791--
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