Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:44:39 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: VMware freezing up my computer Message-ID: <200003241744.KAA00720@benson>
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I tried installing VMware 2.0 from the Vladimir N. Silyaev port available off the net. I'm running on a Pentium II 350 running a 4.0-STABLE system cvsupped yesterday. The linux base is the 6.1 port and it was installed around February 14, and I'm using the linix proc port with it as well. The only minor odd thing I did was update the default port to use the release version of VMware 2.0 (VMware-2.0-476.tar.gz) instead of the older snapshot specified in the port. The installation when fine, and I loaded all the kernel modules necessary for it to run. I then started up vmware and proceeded to create my first virtual machine. It was a win98 client system that I tried to create. After that I dug out my win98 startup disk so I could format the virtual disk I created, and tried to boot it under vmware. This is where the problems started. Everytime I start the virtual machine under vmware, it runs for a few seconds (less than a minute), and then hangs with a lot of disk access (not swaping though according to swapinfo). This extreme disk usage shuts out all other disk access on the machine, causing the whole machine to lock up in a few minutes. Has anyone else seen this? I've tried booting both from the floppy device, and from a disk image of the boot disk. I even installed the /dev/rtc emulator to see if that would help. I get no error messages, or other indications of problems, it just hangs. Any suggestions would be greatly accepted. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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