Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:21:28 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware2 fails on SMP kernel Message-ID: <v04210102b57490c45469@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <394DF094.416BABC0@partitur.se> References: <394DF094.416BABC0@partitur.se>
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At 12:06 PM +0200 6/19/00, Palle Girgensohn wrote: >Hi! > >I'm setting up vmware for a handful machines, and one of them >is a dual processor motherboard (SMP). vmware fails to start >the emulation with [...] I have a vague memory that somewhere in the description of the vmware-port it mentions that vmware won't work under FreeBSD on SMP systems. On the other hand, I read a lot of different vmware-related files in the past week, and the one I am thinking of may have been from earlier versions of the port. As I have a dual-P3 to run this on, I'd also be interested in how well the ported version works on SMP kernels. >FreeBSD-4.0-STABLE (fresh from last wednesday), SMP kernel, >freshly cvs-ed port. The linux emulation stuff is nfs-mounted. I kinda doubt it makes any difference whether the files for linux emulation are nfs-mounted. (but I don't really know) >I use the linuxprocfs unofficial port from Dec 1999 >(http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/linuxproc-12-27-99.tar.gz). Probably not a good idea. >I did try adding linprocfs to /usr/src/sys/modules/Makefile's >SUBDIRS variable and rebuilding the entire world, but then >kldload fails with the infamous "Exec format error" (odd, since >I didn't change any sources apart from the mentioned Makefile, >but I track STABLE, and linprocfs isn't supported there...). Look for a recent message to freebsd-emulation, or a recent PR, titled "Broken linprocfs filesystem in -stable". It includes a patch that got linprocfs working OK for me last friday. Unfortunately, I then ran into some other problem so I can't say how well it would work for you. I *am* running on an SMP machine, but it's possible I didn't get far enough along to run into the problem you saw. (in my case I wanted to run a guest OS off a "raw" scsi hard disk, and that doesn't seem to be an option in the port). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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