Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:46:55 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@mail.yourfit.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some VMware progress. More questions (was Re: latest VMware port dumping core. ) Message-ID: <v04210101b5a5f81f1434@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007261244470.315-100000@armani.yourfit.com> References: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007261244470.315-100000@armani.yourfit.com>
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At 12:46 PM -0400 7/26/00, Chris BeHanna wrote: >On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > [...problems with VMWare filling up /tmp...] > > > > Do not play around with symlinks for /tmp. One of the readme > > or hints files talks about setting and exporting an environment > > variable so that vmware will use a different directory than /tmp > > for it's purposes. I created a simple shell which just sets > > that environment variable, and then starts the real vmware. > > > > At the very least, /var/tmp is MEANT to be different than /tmp, and > > thus I expect that you should not symlink the one to the other. > > _The Complete FreeBSD_ recommends symlinking /tmp to /usr/tmp, >or some other such thing (e.g., its own partition). > > Do you foresee problemps with /tmp -> /usr/tmp? Hmm. I thought /usr/tmp was already a symlink to /var/tmp, but apparently it isn't. That's interesting. (it is that symlink on other unix OS's that we have running here at RPI). I don't see a problem with that, but in general I would rather give vmware specific directions as to where to create it's large swapping-related files. In my case, for instance, I point those at a partition which is on a separate hard disk from the disks the virtual machine is otherwise using. (I guess that what I'm saying is that making /tmp a symlink to /usr/tmp may be a good idea in and of itself, but I wouldn't do that simply because of vmware's temp files. I'd rather move where vmware puts it's files, and then consider /tmp symlinks on their own merits. Just my personal preference) --- 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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