From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 3 1:51:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5463537B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2132F43E6A; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 3 Oct 2002 09:51:09 +0100 (BST) To: Mark Santcroos Cc: Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 10:11:52 +0200." <20021003081152.GB584@laptop.6bone.nl> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:51:09 +0100 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200210030951.aa87235@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20021003081152.GB584@laptop.6bone.nl>, Mark Santcroos writes: >On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:04:04AM +0100, Ian Dowse wrote: >> There may still be further issues, but it allowed me to use vmware2 >> on a current from a week or two ago. > >That's only for virtual disks, and that is not where the problem is (was). >For most people this is not a solution. True, it won't fix the problems you reported with raw disks, but it stops vmware from instantly panicking on recent -currents and that is the first problem you will encounter with the port. I tend to run vmware either diskless or with virtual disks, so I wouldn't notice the raw disk issues. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message