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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:26:35 -0400
From:      mike ryan <msr@elision.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware2 and xfree86-4.0.1
Message-ID:  <20000713122635.A67937@medianstrip.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007131544.LAA21770@tangerine.uucom.com>; from mwhalen@uucom.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:44:17AM -0400
References:  <200007131544.LAA21770@tangerine.uucom.com>

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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:44:17AM -0400, Matthew Whalen wrote:
> 
> I have a new machine that I'm trying to configure.  It's very similar
> to my regular home machine (PIII 700 vs K7 700).  They both run
> 4.0-stable (home was build last about 1 month ago, new machine yesterday).
> I have xf86 4 on this new machine, and 3 at home.
> 
> My vmware on the new machine dies cathing with a SIGSEGV and "Abort trap"
> being printed to the screen.  I know that vmware doesn't officially support
> XF86 4, but this doesn't really sound a lot like an Xserver problem
> to me.  There isn't much in the vmware log to note.  Has anyone tried
> vmware2 with XF86 4 yet?  If so, did you get the same result?  Is there
> something else going on?

i've had the same result.  i'm also running 4.0-stable built within
the last few days and xfree86 4.0.1, on a sony vaio z505hs laptop.

on my system at least, there appears to be a correlation with disk
modes -- virtual machines configured with raw disks abort on boot,
virtual machines with virtual disks work fine.


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