Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:45:56 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 and raw disks? Message-ID: <20060422204556.GG1970@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <17482.34498.868647.631779@satchel.alerce.com> References: <20051121150641.GA714@genius.tao.org.uk> <20060417162115.GJ42376@genius.tao.org.uk> <20060419133708.GA946@genius.tao.org.uk> <20060421091534.GA11958@genius.tao.org.uk> <4449D0EA.9070105@psg.com> <20060422175346.GE1970@genius.tao.org.uk> <17482.34498.868647.631779@satchel.alerce.com>
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On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:40:50PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote:
> >=20
> >=20
> > I'm definitely on the case with this. I'll post here when it's fixed.
>=20
> Does vmware3 on FreeBSD-STABLE work when you're using ACPI?
>=20
Depends upon what you mean by work. I had it working on 6.0 for a long
time, up until March of last year when the raw disk support was broken.
After that I didn't really have any time to investigate and so I've just
been posting here ever once in a while to see if anyone had it working.
Currently I've got 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #30: Thu
Mar 23 09:04:30 GMT 2006 on my machine and, vmware3-3.2.1.2242_12,1.
I appear to have acpi support switched on.
If I run vmware as a non-root user I get:
Setting TMPDIR=3D/var/tmp.
Unable to fix standard file descriptors.
I'm not sure what that's about; it never used to do that when I had it
running last year. If I run it as root it appears to work ok; at least
I get a bios screen and it attempts to boot.
So, I guess that the answer to your question is yes.
Joe
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