From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 8:12:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.licentia.net (24-196-96-227.jvl.wi.charter.com [24.196.96.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D51237B406 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:12:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 55126 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2002 15:12:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stevenfettig.com) (127.0.0.1) by mx2.licentia.net with SMTP; 20 Jun 2002 15:12:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3D11F0E0.7020104@stevenfettig.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:12:32 -0500 From: Steve Fettig User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Carroll, D. (Danny)" Cc: Jon Larssen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE & VMware 3.0 References: <6C506EA550443D44A061432F1E92EA4C6C52BA@ing.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Carroll, D. (Danny) wrote: > :That's where my last attempt differed. I had set up the hard drive as > :SCSI, but not cd-rom. I also heard from another poster that > :activating > :DMA for the cd-rom might work, but I don't understand how one would > :activate it in FreeBSD if one can't even get past device probing... > :anyway, that is something else. > > That's a smart move... I did not know that VmWare could do this (Only > had it 2 days)... > The older version I played with dod not do this. > > As for enabling the DMA, since you can't so it in loader.conf, you can > set it manually from the boot prompt. > I've not reied it, but saw it a couple of days ago.. > > When you see the OK prompt, do this-> > > ok set hw.ata.ata_dma="1" > ok set hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" > ok boot > > But to be honest, for now the Virtual SCSI stuff sounds better. > Thanks for the instructions. I agree about simply running SCSI emulation, but it is nice to know there is another way to do it... > :I see. I haven't followed much of the 4.6 discussion (to be > :honest, I'm > :really happy with 4.5 other than XFree86 3.x still being part of the X > :install -- although I shouldn't complain. I have problems > :with 4.x, so > :I don't even use it anyway...) - so I didn't hear anything about > :ata/atapi problems... > > On that note, to those that use FBSD and VMWare a lot... Can you tell > me if it's worth trying X windows or am I going to be bitterly > dissapointed? > > Also, does anyone bother installing the VMware tools? At the moment I > have two text-only machines doing some IPSEC / Racoon testing and they > work fine without the tools. Would I gain anything by installing them? > > I have used X a number of times in the virtual machines and really didn't have any problems (in fact, I had less difficulty getting it to run in VMWare than on my Thinkpad that I'm trying to figure out...). I was never able to get the tools installed though. I must be honest - I didn't try hard there, either. It is fairly simple to do with RH Linux, but w/ what I am testing in the VMWare console, I am really only concerned with the terminal. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message