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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:14:10 -0500
From:      Michael W.Holdeman <ptfd9100@beanstalk.net>
To:        "Travis L. Leuthauser" <travis@bbipmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: VMWare2
Message-ID:  <02032018141003.13992@fcoffice.ptfd.org>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIGMCEDGDNFGOAAFLIEOEIHAA.travis@bbipmail.com>
References:  <NEBBIGMCEDGDNFGOAAFLIEOEIHAA.travis@bbipmail.com>

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Looked that over, Pretty greek to a newbie!
I assume as root I need to mount /proc to /compat/linux/proc But am not sure, 
and am not sure how!

Mike


On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:37, you wrote:
> Take a look at the man page for linprocfs.. that should help you out if I
> remember correctly
>
> man 5 linprocfs
>
> -Travis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael
> W.Holdeman
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:33 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Cc: ports@freebsd.org
> Subject: VMWare2
>
>
> Upon installing vmware 2 from teh ports, everything seemed to go fine
> however
> when I try to run it as a user I get a complaint about linux procfs not
> mounted, when I use /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware  it starts but gives
> me errors about not being able to execute the vmware workstation executable
> file, and module 10 initialization succeeded.. Starts anyway, but I'm
> unable to load a guest OS as when trying to hit power on I get could not
> open /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> I tried but did not have a linproc port in teh ports collection.  So I got
> th
> elinprocfs.tar.gz from teh same ftp as teh vmware (mindspring ... ...) and
> placed it in teh ports/emulators, tree. When running make ioon it I get
> complaints that it is too old, and need to run pkg instead?
>
> My system is setup with Linux_compatibility=yes in rc.conf.
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Mike
>
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