Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:47:35 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Some VMware progress. More questions (was Re: latest VMware port dumping core. ) Message-ID: <14717.14343.423191.404139@whale.home-net> In-Reply-To: <200007250002.UAA00521@jupiter.delta.ny.us> References: <14716.26696.719757.828831@hip186.ch.intel.com> <200007250002.UAA00521@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
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[ On Monday, July 24, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: ] > > It's looks like old problem with raw devices. Under FreeBSD it's impossible to > get real configuration of hard drive. And gueses about that not always right. > > In you situation it has a sense to read the file > /usr/local/share/doc/vmware/Hints.FreeBSD and using not a raw device, but > plain disk. Required numbers you could get from configuration file for raw > device (and to do some work about substraction and addition on them). OK. I read through this and modified the .hda file accordingly: DRIVETYPE ide CYLINDERS 39560 HEADS 16 SECTORS 63 ACCESS "/disk1/vmware/win98/disk.mbr" 0 63 ACCESS "/dev/rad0s1" 63 15374204 RDONLY "/dev/null" 15374204 39873329 like the text suggests pulling the geometry out of dmesg info and the other config info from the slice editor in /stand/sysinstall for ad0. With this file in place, I was able to boot win98 from my existing hard drive. Windoze came up with the standard "searching for devices" bull crap and I just waded through that hitting cancel. I tried to install the VMware tools for win98. I followed all the procedures, but at the point where I was supposed to change video card drivers, I got stumped as the directions did not reflect reality as to what I was being presented. A JPEG screen capture of what I read and saw is at: http://members.home.com/jjreynold/vmware_dump.jpg As you can see, I've clicked on the "Advanced" button and Adapter tab. I really want to click the "Change..." button but it's grayed out! Something bizzare is going on here. As you can also see, the dialog box is titled "(unknown device) properties". Does anybody have any clues as to what's going on here with this install? Win98 was installed "bare bones" and immediately I made vmware its own hardware configuration which I'm using as I boot from /dev/ad0s1 within vmware. At this point, I'm basically screwed for video drivers that are better than 640x480 because I can't change anything. General observations / questions: o It is PAINFULLY slow. If I ever get the VMware tools installed will that help? I've got TWO Pentium III 500Mhz CPUs and 256Mb of RAM in this machine and the vmware window running win98 seems like when I used to run Windows NT on a 486DX4 with slow ISA video card. With this much CPU, is the slowness I see with VMware typical? Do other users see this much slowness? What can be done to speed things up? o In vain, I tried to access my CD-ROM which is a scsi device sitting on ahc0 target 3. If I tried to "install" this device inside the configuration editor I instantly get a core-dump the next time I try to "power on" the VM with the following message to the console: /: write failed, file system is full VMware Workstation PANIC: Slave process "SCSI0:3" died VMware Workstation PANIC: BUG F(566):524 bugNr=3728 Panic loop Is anybody else able to access a scsi CD-ROM device? Am I doing it wrong? o Is there any URL for a FAQ for VMware-under-FreeBSD issues that is reasonably up-to-date? This is really cool ... it made my wife drool seeing her beloved windows come up under FreeBSD. Now hopefully I can get the information on the knobs to turn to fine tune all this stuff and make it more "livable" ... Thanks, -Jr ps: I just CVSUP'ed ports and see that the vmware port was updated to 2.0.2.621 and I have 2.0.1.570 loaded. I'll download and reinstall this to see if it helps at all..... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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