Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:00:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: per@hedeland.org (Per Hedeland) Cc: orlando@break.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 Message-ID: <200601262300.PAA81456@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200601262224.k0QMORcc093213@pluto.hedeland.org> from Per Hedeland at "Jan 26, 2006 11:24:27 pm"
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> A couple more data points, both from vmware3 on 5.3-RELEASE: > > > System 1. FreeBSD version???? > linux_base-8-8.0_4 > vmware3-3.2.1.2242_10,1 > > - both cvsup'ed up-to-date at the time of installation (Jan 6 2005). > > Kernel has 'device apic' (but not SMP - it's a single PIII). > VMware lives entirely in /usr/local. > > Runs OKish including networking, but pretty light usage and only Win98 > as guest. I do get the bogus kern.hz warning, and I wouldn't call what > happens at shutdown a "panic", but it does throw up a popup: The bogus kern.hz warning isnt really bogus, just the display value is wrong. VMware is infact requesting a freq > kern.hz. Try running your kernel at hz=256, that should kill the warninng, and isnt the 1000 hz load. > VMware Workstation Unrecoverable error: (VMX) > AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712 > Please request support and include the contents of the log file: > '/home/per/vmware/win98/vmware.log'. Yes, that messagse is usually printed as: VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712 The (VMX) may also be (scsi0:0), (ide0:0) or other devices.... > - I just ignore both.:-) OK, there is some noise about "panic" in the > mentioned log, but the guest OS is always shut down properly. Well, that might be fine for those that dont do os kernel debugging and like to smash reset when the thing goes out to lunch.. pain in the ass to restart vmware everytime.... > System 2. FreeBSD version??? > linux_base-7.1_7 > vmware3-3.2.1.2242_9,1 > > Kernel has neither 'device apic' nor SMP (it's a P4 capable of HT, but I > had other problems with SMP anyway). > VMware lives entirely in /usr/local. > > On this system VMware would absolutely not run with 'device apic' nor > linux_base-8 (same vintage as above). I resorted to the ports skeleton > from the release CD and turned off cvsup to keep my sanity. With 'device > apic' my mouse went catatonic, and the CPU user/sys/idle timers simply > stopped, when I started VMware. With linux-base-8, VMware could be run > as root, but trying to run it as an ordinary user resulted in immediate > segfault. > > However with the above setup it runs perfectly, heavy daily use with > both WinXP and RH7.3 as guests, simultaneously (in different VMware > instances:-), including a lot of network use. I basically never startup > or shutdown (they run under Xvnc), but that works fine too as far as I > recall. This is what I have running now on 5.4p8, works very well. Especially if you match kern.hz to the vmware rtc hz of 256, or use an integral multiple of it (512 or 768 should be good too). -- Rod Grimes freebsd@freebsd.org
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