Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 00:01:02 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> Cc: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com>, John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? Message-ID: <20000808000102.P254@parish> In-Reply-To: <200008071936.NAA11161@benson>; from steve@khoral.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:36:12PM -0600 References: <20000805150815.C254@parish> <200008071936.NAA11161@benson>
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:36:12PM -0600, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>
> I used to see the same behavior when I let vmware use /tmp on my
> small root partition, because there wasn't enough diskspace to
> hold its temporary file. My linux emulation system is under
> /usr/compat/linux which is a much larger disk partition, so when
> I created a tmp in that directory with the same permissions as
> /tmp, vmware worked just fine.
>
My /tmp is symlinked to /usr/tmp. Turned out to be becuse I'm running
a K6 CPU. Vladimir suggested making k6_mem.c an empty file and
re-building my kernel; that fixed it.
> Steve
>
> Mark Ovens wrote
> >> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:42:30AM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote:
> >> > Thanks for the info. Actually, late last night I actually flopped in
> >> > the correct direction (probably accidentally). I'll note where your
> >> > stuff differs from mine:
> >> >
> >> > :- First off, is the NT/BSD boot disk an IDE disk? I hope so. Even VMware
> >> > :- themselves say booting a VM from scsi is at best experimental. I would
> >> > :- seriously doubt it would work under FreeBSD, but maybe
> >> >
> >> > It's scsi, and it seems to work.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I've been following this thread and learnt quite a bit from it, thanks
> >> guys, however I *still* can't get vmware to run :(
> >>
> >> It starts up but as soon as I click the Power On button the vmware
> >> window turns black and the whole machine locks solid (no keyboard or
> >> mouse response, and the desktop clock and xtimer stop) and after ~15
> >> secs the machine spontaneously reboots (which is a PITA as it fsck's
> >> the disks every time).
> >>
> >> There is no clue in the vmware log, or /var/adm/messages, as to the
> >> cause.
> >>
> >> I've tried using a virtual disk and (currently) a plain disk (SCSI).
> >> I've set up with no CD-ROM and floppy (to minimize possible causes)
> >> but still it won't run.
> >>
> >> I originally built it with the latest port (Makefile rev 1.20) but in
> >> another thread here it implied/suggested that the previous Makefile
> >> (rev 1.19) may be better, so I grabbed that and tried it - no
> >> different.
> >>
> >> Can anyone shed any light on the cause of these crashes? Also, I have
> >> no .nvram file. Is it supposed to be created by hand? If so, what
> >> goes in it?
> >>
> >> # uname -a
> >> FreeBSD parish 4.1-RC FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: Thu Jul 20 20:54:53 BST 2000
> >> root@parish:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARISH i386
> >>
> >> # cat win95.{cfg,hba}
> >> #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
> >> config.version = 2
> >>
> >> # No cdrom installed
> >>
> >>
> >> # Disk Drive Info
> >> scsi0:0.present = TRUE
> >> scsi0:0.deviceType = "plainDisk"
> >> scsi0:0.fileName = "win95.hba"
> >> scsi0.present = TRUE
> >>
> >> # No floppy installed
> >>
> >> floppy0.present = FALSE
> >>
> >> # No networking installed
> >>
> >> # Memory size
> >> memsize = 32
> >>
> >> # Nvram
> >> nvram = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.nvram
> >>
> >> # Log file
> >> log.fileName = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.log
> >>
> >> # Hints
> >> guestOS = win95
> >>
> >> DRIVETYPE scsi
> >> CYLINDERS 527
> >> HEADS 255
> >> SECTORS 63
> >> ACCESS "disk.mbr" 0 63
> >> ACCESS "/dev/rda0s1" 63 1044162
> >> ACCESS "/dev/null" 1044225 7422030
> >>
> >>
>
>
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