Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:44:17 +0100 From: Gernot Hueber <hueber@riic.at> To: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on freebsd5.4 fails networking Message-ID: <1135169057.1153.4.camel@hawkings> In-Reply-To: <200512202257.jBKMvtDf032319@pluto.hedeland.org> References: <200512202257.jBKMvtDf032319@pluto.hedeland.org>
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Thanks for your response. At least I found out what was going wrong, there was still a /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 from a very old vmware installation ... After removing that one and linking to the current everything works. Gernot On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 23:57 +0100, Per Hedeland wrote: > Gernot Hueber <hueber@riic.at> wrote: > > > >I can't get vmware3 networking up and running :-( > >(While installing the port I have tried both, with and without bridging > >mode) > > Have you installed from a current version of the port? The Makefile has > been broken for the better part of the year, resulting in a rc script > that fails to do the needed network setup. Should be fixed in port > revision 12 on October 14th. > > >vmware starts but I get errors regarding the vmnet > > > >1) When config is set to bridging mode > > > >"Could not query bridging status on device /dev/vmnet0. Please update > >your vmnet driver." > > > >VM starts and I can use it (without networkging) > > VMware itself must always be configured for "Host-Only" mode on FreeBSD. > The choice between really doing that, or bridging via netgraph, is done > by the rc script based on the config that is created when you build the > port. I.e. the above will never work. > > >2) When config is set to host-only mode > > > >"Could not open /dev/vmnet1: No such device or address > >Failed to configure ethernet0." > > > >VM does not start. > > This might possibly be the result of the broken rc script per above, I > don't remember the exact symptom when you actually try to start VMware. > > >In both cases vmnet0 and vmnet1 devices are available. > > Hm, you don't need vmnet0 (which VMware wants to use when configured for > bridging like above), and the rc script won't create it - if you created > the devices yourself you may have done something wrong... > > >What is going wrong here, I have googled around, no luck yet. > > There is some discussion on the gory details of VMware3 networking on > FreeBSD in the MultipleInstances.FreeBSD file that comes with the port > (gets installed in /usr/local/share/doc/vmware) - most of it is probably > overkill if you just want to run a single VMware instance, but it might > give some hints. > > --Per Hedeland > -- DI Gernot Hueber Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen Altenbergerstr. 69 4040 Linz Tel +43 732 2468 7120 Fax +43 732 2468 7126 Email hueber@riic.at Web www.riic.at
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