Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ?
Hi Greg, I am facing with some issues in getting FreeBSD installed on my machine. I am using Vmware workstation version 5. I am using an evaluation version of it. I downloaded the FreeBSD Release 6.2 from freebsd.org. I downloaded all the 3 ISO images. cd1 , cd2 and docs . I did not write these images on the CD but i mounted them directly on the CD drive of Vmware. I had selected OS Type as Other/FreeBSD at the time of installation. My basic installation got over properly and smoothly without any pains. But, i faced an error when i selected some packages for installation and kde from the packages list. It said 'Could not load package libiconv-1.9.2_2 and gettext... etc'. What could be the issue here? Also what mode should i select when installing the network adapter. Which one should i select. lance/Slip/ppp ? I am using DSL cable internet modem internet connection and the modem is connected to my computer using an ethernet. Further, after installation how should i ensure that all the required kernel sources are installed? Is there any way by which i can install a specific package from from CD and let the OS determine and install all the dependencies automatically? Is there any command for this like we have apt-get in debian? Thanks, Ajay. On 3/2/07, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ? I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw a mail in this mailing list regarding some problems while installing on vmware. Could not make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while installing on Vmware. Regards, ajay. Hi Ajay, I wrote in to the list a little while back about VMware installation problems that I had with FreeBSD 6.2, but the issue was completely related to the CPU architecture (Via C3 Nehemiah) that I was using. VMware doesn't officially support that processor, even though it's supposed to be Intel compatible. Another list member sent me a kernel patch that fixed the problem (thanks ghozzy). I also have a WinXP box with a Celeron processor in it and VMware Server installed, and FreeBSD 4.x and 6.x both install and run with no problems at all. If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll try to answer them. I'm going to be learning a lot more about VMware Server and FreeBSD in the coming months, as I'm working on redeploying my company's service using those tools as the foundation. I hope to share that knowledge with the list as I proceed. I also found this thread (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-October/132 716.html) with some information in it about issues to be aware of while running FreeBSD as a guest OS under VMware. Follow the thread a little way, and you'll see an example kernel config file, too. Best of luck, Greg Larkin ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ?
Further, after installation how should i ensure that all the required kernel sources are installed? You want the sources to the complete system, not just the kernel, and you would want to keep these upto-date too. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html and, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Is there any way by which i can install a specific package from from CD and let the OS determine and install all the dependencies automatically? Is there any command for this like we have apt-get in debian? 'pkg_add' should be installing dependencies automatically. -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ?
ajay gopalakrishnan skrev: Hi Greg, I am facing with some issues in getting FreeBSD installed on my machine. I am using Vmware workstation version 5. I am using an evaluation version of it. I downloaded the FreeBSD Release 6.2 from freebsd.org. I downloaded all the 3 ISO images. cd1 , cd2 and docs . I did not write these images on the CD but i mounted them directly on the CD drive of Vmware. I had selected OS Type as Other/FreeBSD at the time of installation. My basic installation got over properly and smoothly without any pains. But, i faced an error when i selected some packages for installation and kde from the packages list. It said 'Could not load package libiconv-1.9.2_2 and gettext... etc'. What could be the issue here? Also what mode should i select when installing the network adapter. Which one should i select. lance/Slip/ppp ? I am using DSL cable internet modem internet connection and the modem is connected to my computer using an ethernet. I set the nics to bridge when I ran this way. Further, after installation how should i ensure that all the required kernel sources are installed? This is only necessary if you want to build a kernel of your own. If you are satisfied with the kernel shipped with the cds (called GENERIC) there is no need. The handbook at www.freebsd.org is a very good starting point and answers many questions. Is there any way by which i can install a specific package from from CD and let the OS determine and install all the dependencies automatically? Is there any command for this like we have apt-get in debian? Yes, this is done automagically when you either add the binary package or when you do make install clean in the source code for it. Again, the handbook answers all this. Thanks, Ajay. On 3/2/07, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ? I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw a mail in this mailing list regarding some problems while installing on vmware. Could not make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while installing on Vmware. Regards, ajay. Hi Ajay, I wrote in to the list a little while back about VMware installation problems that I had with FreeBSD 6.2, but the issue was completely related to the CPU architecture (Via C3 Nehemiah) that I was using. VMware doesn't officially support that processor, even though it's supposed to be Intel compatible. Another list member sent me a kernel patch that fixed the problem (thanks ghozzy). I also have a WinXP box with a Celeron processor in it and VMware Server installed, and FreeBSD 4.x and 6.x both install and run with no problems at all. If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll try to answer them. I'm going to be learning a lot more about VMware Server and FreeBSD in the coming months, as I'm working on redeploying my company's service using those tools as the foundation. I hope to share that knowledge with the list as I proceed. I also found this thread (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-October/132 716.html) with some information in it about issues to be aware of while running FreeBSD as a guest OS under VMware. Follow the thread a little way, and you'll see an example kernel config file, too. Best of luck, Greg Larkin ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ?
Hey all, Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ? I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw a mail in this mailing list regarding some problems while installing on vmware. Could not make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while installing on Vmware. Regards, ajay. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ?
Hello ajay, I have FreeBSD4.9 and 6.2 running under vmware. It's been up and about for a long time. No issues at all so far. The installation is pretty straighforward I seem to remember chosing other/other among the OS templates though. Good luck! ajay gopalakrishnan skrev: Hey all, Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ? I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw a mail in this mailing list regarding some problems while installing on vmware. Could not make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while installing on Vmware. Regards, ajay. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ?
Hey all, Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ? I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw a mail in this mailing list regarding some problems while installing on vmware. Could not make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while installing on Vmware. Regards, ajay. Hi Ajay, I wrote in to the list a little while back about VMware installation problems that I had with FreeBSD 6.2, but the issue was completely related to the CPU architecture (Via C3 Nehemiah) that I was using. VMware doesn't officially support that processor, even though it's supposed to be Intel compatible. Another list member sent me a kernel patch that fixed the problem (thanks ghozzy). I also have a WinXP box with a Celeron processor in it and VMware Server installed, and FreeBSD 4.x and 6.x both install and run with no problems at all. If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll try to answer them. I'm going to be learning a lot more about VMware Server and FreeBSD in the coming months, as I'm working on redeploying my company's service using those tools as the foundation. I hope to share that knowledge with the list as I proceed. I also found this thread (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-October/132 716.html) with some information in it about issues to be aware of while running FreeBSD as a guest OS under VMware. Follow the thread a little way, and you'll see an example kernel config file, too. Best of luck, Greg Larkin ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ?
ajay gopalakrishnan schreef: Hey all, Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ? I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw a mail in this mailing list regarding some problems while installing on vmware. Could not make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while installing on Vmware. I once installed FreeBSD 6.1 on Windows XP using qemu, which worked fine basically. Regards, Rene -- GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net) It won't fit on the line. -- me, 2001 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ?
On 03/02/07 12:22, Greg Larkin wrote: Hey all, Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP ? I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw a mail in this mailing list regarding some problems while installing on vmware. Could not make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while installing on Vmware. Regards, ajay. Hi Ajay, I wrote in to the list a little while back about VMware installation problems that I had with FreeBSD 6.2, but the issue was completely related to the CPU architecture (Via C3 Nehemiah) that I was using. VMware doesn't officially support that processor, even though it's supposed to be Intel compatible. Another list member sent me a kernel patch that fixed the problem (thanks ghozzy). The issue is not that the C3 is not x86 compatible, because it is completely compatible. The issue here is that vmware is allowing all the CPU features to be advertised to the guest OS, when it does not in fact emulate all those features. The C3 CPU has additional features that Intel processors do not have, like the RNG and AES encryption. Either the guest OS needs to know not to use them, or vmware needs to be smarter and emulate that feature. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on vmware
iedowse ... but only if you spend most of your time running CPU benchmarks :-) That's right :-) iedowse On slower CPUs (I was using a 400MHz PII), the interrupts can iedowse soak up virtually all of the available processing capacity iedowse without the patch. I suspect this effect is responsible for iedowse the most dramatic speedups. I don't know that we can add a new option, maybe named 'VMWARE_GUEST', for specific hardware. But if someone (I don't know who) allows us to do, we all VMware users will be happy with it. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD on vmware
glenngombert I could not even get 'Current' to boot at all under glenngombert VMware 3.0 without applying the patch that was mentioned glenngombert a couple weeks ago under Win2K... What goes wrong to you? Unable to boot with boot floppies? -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD on vmware
iedowse Someone mentioned on a list somewhere that vmware takes forever to iedowse emulate the cmpxchg instruction, and that using the I386_CPU version iedowse of atomic_cmpset_int() helps a lot. I really know I'm doing a stupid thing, but here is benchmark results of both plain and patched 5-current (as of Nov/26/2001). Patched FreeBSD is about 10% faster than before. *** Before: TESTBASELINE RESULT INDEX Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2541.7 156596.8 61.6 Dhrystone 2 without register variables 22366.3 1214131.7 54.3 Execl Throughput Test 16.5 25.11.5 File Copy (30 seconds)179.0 1684.09.4 Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 710.90.5 Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.07.01.8 = SUM of 6 items 129.1 AVERAGE 21.5 *** After: TESTBASELINE RESULT INDEX Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2541.7 167038.3 65.7 Dhrystone 2 without register variables 22366.3 1267100.0 56.7 Execl Throughput Test 16.5 45.02.7 File Copy (30 seconds)179.0 2863.0 16.0 Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 1372.61.0 Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.0 12.53.1 = SUM of 6 items 145.3 AVERAGE 24.2 *** Note that both are tested with: - Same kernel configuration (but not GENERIC kernel) - VMware Workstation 3.0.0 build 1455, WindowsXP Pro host - 96MB RAM for FreeBSD guest OS - 1.9GB Virtual Disk is on ATA66 HDD of host PC. - Host PC has one Pentium3 850Mhz CPU -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD on vmware
I could not even get 'Currnet' to boot at all under VMware 3.0 without applying the patch that was mentioned a couple weeks ago under Win2K... -- Glenn Gombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (513) 587-2643 x2263 - voicemail/fax Makoto Matsushita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iedowse Someone mentioned on a list somewhere that vmware takes forever to iedowse emulate the cmpxchg instruction, and that using the I386_CPU version iedowse of atomic_cmpset_int() helps a lot. I really know I'm doing a stupid thing, but here is benchmark results of both plain and patched 5-current (as of Nov/26/2001). Patched FreeBSD is about 10% faster than before. *** Before: TESTBASELINE RESULT INDEX Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2541.7 156596.8 61.6 Dhrystone 2 without register variables 22366.3 1214131.7 54.3 Execl Throughput Test 16.5 25.1 1.5 File Copy (30 seconds)179.0 1684.0 9.4 Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 710.9 0.5 Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.07.0 1.8 = SUM of 6 items 129.1 AVERAGE 21.5 *** After: TESTBASELINE RESULT INDEX Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2541.7 167038.3 65.7 Dhrystone 2 without register variables 22366.3 1267100.0 56.7 Execl Throughput Test 16.5 45.0 2.7 File Copy (30 seconds)179.0 2863.0 16.0 Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 1372.6 1.0 Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.0 12.5 3.1 = SUM of 6 items 145.3 AVERAGE 24.2 *** Note that both are tested with: - Same kernel configuration (but not GENERIC kernel) - VMware Workstation 3.0.0 build 1455, WindowsXP Pro host - 96MB RAM for FreeBSD guest OS - 1.9GB Virtual Disk is on ATA66 HDD of host PC. - Host PC has one Pentium3 850Mhz CPU -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD on vmware
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Makoto Matsushita writes: I really know I'm doing a stupid thing, but here is benchmark results of both plain and patched 5-current (as of Nov/26/2001). Patched FreeBSD is about 10% faster than before. ... but only if you spend most of your time running CPU benchmarks :-) Your results show a 50-100% speed increase for operations requiring a lot of kernel activity. Remember also that interrupts etc. cause a background rate of cmpxchg instructions that is quite high. On slower CPUs (I was using a 400MHz PII), the interrupts can soak up virtually all of the available processing capacity without the patch. I suspect this effect is responsible for the most dramatic speedups. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD on vmware
Thanks for the tip Ian ...this works great! I have applied this patch
to my desktop system ...and the FreeBSD Current kernel with this patch
applied boots right up now...anyone else running Current under FreeBSD
would fine it helpful to do as well
Glenn G.
Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert
Watson writ
es:
I've had -STABLE run fine, but of late have had a lot of trouble with
-current. Userland processes during the boot sequence seem to spend
a lot
of time just spinning -- it's not clear to me what the cause is, and
I
haven't had time to debug.
Someone mentioned on a list somewhere that vmware takes forever to
emulate the cmpxchg instruction, and that using the I386_CPU version
of atomic_cmpset_int() helps a lot. I noticed a major vmware slowdown
with -current sometime in September, so I tried avoiding the
cmpxchg's and things got much faster. Below is the patch I use
(using this outside vmware on SMP hardware is a bad idea :-).
Ian
Index: atomic.h
===
RCS file: /dump/FreeBSD-CVS/src/sys/i386/include/atomic.h,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.21 atomic.h
--- atomic.h 2001/10/08 20:58:24 1.21
+++ atomic.h 2001/10/09 18:35:25
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
* Returns 0 on failure, non-zero on success
*/
-#if defined(I386_CPU)
+#if defined(I386_CPU) || 1
static __inline int
atomic_cmpset_int(volatile u_int *dst, u_int exp, u_int src)
{
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Re: FreeBSD on vmware
On 15-Nov-01 Glenn Gombert wrote:
Thanks for the tip Ian ...this works great! I have applied this patch
to my desktop system ...and the FreeBSD Current kernel with this patch
applied boots right up now...anyone else running Current under FreeBSD
would fine it helpful to do as well
Perhaps we need an 'options VMWARE' that this could be triggered off of.
Glenn G.
Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert
Watson writ
es:
I've had -STABLE run fine, but of late have had a lot of trouble with
-current. Userland processes during the boot sequence seem to spend
a lot
of time just spinning -- it's not clear to me what the cause is, and
I
haven't had time to debug.
Someone mentioned on a list somewhere that vmware takes forever to
emulate the cmpxchg instruction, and that using the I386_CPU version
of atomic_cmpset_int() helps a lot. I noticed a major vmware slowdown
with -current sometime in September, so I tried avoiding the
cmpxchg's and things got much faster. Below is the patch I use
(using this outside vmware on SMP hardware is a bad idea :-).
Ian
Index: atomic.h
===
RCS file: /dump/FreeBSD-CVS/src/sys/i386/include/atomic.h,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.21 atomic.h
--- atomic.h 2001/10/08 20:58:24 1.21
+++ atomic.h 2001/10/09 18:35:25
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
* Returns 0 on failure, non-zero on success
*/
-#if defined(I386_CPU)
+#if defined(I386_CPU) || 1
static __inline int
atomic_cmpset_int(volatile u_int *dst, u_int exp, u_int src)
{
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Re: FreeBSD on vmware
At 7:35 AM -0800 11/15/01, John Baldwin wrote: On 15-Nov-01 Glenn Gombert wrote: Thanks for the tip Ian ...this works great! I have applied this patch to my desktop system ...and the FreeBSD Current kernel with this patch applied boots right up now...anyone else running Current under FreeBSD would fine it helpful to do as well Perhaps we need an 'options VMWARE' that this could be triggered off of. Sounds like a good idea. But call it something like 'VMWARE_GUEST', so it is less likely to be used by someone who wants to *run* vmware on freebsd. (and if we need some other kernel options for running vmware on freebsd, those could be called 'VMWARE_HOST', or something). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD on vmware
I've had -STABLE run fine, but of late have had a lot of trouble with -current. Userland processes during the boot sequence seem to spend a lot of time just spinning -- it's not clear to me what the cause is, and I haven't had time to debug. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Makoto Matsushita wrote: raff Yes, I am running FreeBSD 4.3 in a win2k vmware will everything raff working including the network (to outside world). No special raff configurations were required other than the obvious. FreeBSD 5-current guest also works fine here (W2k host). I'm happy with ports/emulators/vmware-tools :-) -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD on vmware
I now have 4.3 running under VMware on my laptop and main desktop machine (Asus CVU4X-D) systemI am trying to recompile current on my desktop system now (Current hangs badly on my laptop)I will try and investigate the cause of this a little later tonight -- Glenn Gombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (513) 587-2643 x2263 - voicemail/fax Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had -STABLE run fine, but of late have had a lot of trouble with -current. Userland processes during the boot sequence seem to spend a lot of time just spinning -- it's not clear to me what the cause is, and I haven't had time to debug. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Makoto Matsushita wrote: raff Yes, I am running FreeBSD 4.3 in a win2k vmware will everything raff working including the network (to outside world). No special raff configurations were required other than the obvious. FreeBSD 5-current guest also works fine here (W2k host). I'm happy with ports/emulators/vmware-tools :-) -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
FreeBSD on vmware
Dear All, We have a rather beafy server here and we're experimenting with putting a number of vmware sessions on it. To avoid Windows and Linux becoming the only OS'es here in the lab I've volunteered to help out and install FreeBSD. :) I have tried installing on a few configurations; SCSI and IDE, with and without LAN. First: FreeBSD gets a SCSI disk and LAN. The bt0 driver picks up on the disk and proceeds to panic the vmware environment. The main error message is: VMWare GSX Server Panic BUG F(562): 1703 bugnr=4935. Second: FreeBSD gets an IDE disk and LAN. The FreeBSD kernel panics right after detecting the keyboard. The panic is (typed from screen): Fatal trap 12: page fault in vm86 mode fault vir. addr.= 0x1000 code= user read, page not present instr. ptr. = 0x0:0xa03 stack ptr = 0x0:0xffe frame ptr = 0x0:0x0 code seg. = base 0x0, lim 0x0, type 0x0 dpl 0, pres 0, def32 0, gran 0 cpu efl = interrupt enabled, vm86, iopl=0 currproc= 0 (swapper) int mask= net tty bio cam trap= 12 The same panic occurs when I boot up without LAN. This was using FreeBSD version 4.4 from the (ATAPI) cdrom. Detailed logs are available on request and I'm willing to try any experiments you may suggest. Anyone have any suggestions as to what I could try? Kees Jan You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD on vmware
I am running FreeBSD 4.4 in a win2k vmware. Everything seems to work without any perticoular configurations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD on vmware
raff Yes, I am running FreeBSD 4.3 in a win2k vmware will everything raff working including the network (to outside world). No special raff configurations were required other than the obvious. FreeBSD 5-current guest also works fine here (W2k host). I'm happy with ports/emulators/vmware-tools :-) -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD on vmware
I am running VMware on my Dell 5000e LapTop using Win2k right now and 4.3 seems to work fineI 'hang' badly when trying to run 'Current' however ...and I am still trying to sort out why that is Glenn G. -- Glenn Gombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (513) 587-2643 x2263 - voicemail/fax Michael Raff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I am running FreeBSD 4.3 in a win2k vmware will everything working including the network (to outside world). No special configurations were required other than the obvious. At 08:57 AM 11/12/2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: Just out of curiousity, are there any people who actually have FreeBSD running inside a vmware VM? Evidence from the mailing list archives seems to suggest that it worked up to FreeBSD 3.2 and then stopped, never to work again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD on vmware
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: Just out of curiousity, are there any people who actually have FreeBSD running inside a vmware VM? Evidence from the mailing list archives seems to suggest that it worked up to FreeBSD 3.2 and then stopped, never to work again. Yep; 4-stable with nary a hitch (I use it for testing remote hands-off upgrades and for hacking around with bits and pieces like rc.d jiggery-pokery). I've had -current running on it in the past, but not looked at this recently due to a CFT suddenly being less C. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Axioms speak louder than words. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD on vmware
oh yeah there was a period where the lnc driver caused a crash of vmware. leave it out and try again On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: Dear Rohit, Thanks for the response and your suggestion. Fatal trap 12: page fault in vm86 mode The following change helped me get rid of a similar panic. - device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 + device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 When I look at the keyboard in the visual kernel configuration this flag is already set. Just out of curiousity, are there any people who actually have FreeBSD running inside a vmware VM? Evidence from the mailing list archives seems to suggest that it worked up to FreeBSD 3.2 and then stopped, never to work again. Kees Jan You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD on vmware
I have been running -current under vmware 2.x up until about August.. (it didn't stop working, but I vmware stopped running on -current due to KSE changes (patches now available I believe)).. i.e I was running -current under -current On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: Dear Rohit, Thanks for the response and your suggestion. Fatal trap 12: page fault in vm86 mode The following change helped me get rid of a similar panic. - device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 + device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 When I look at the keyboard in the visual kernel configuration this flag is already set. Just out of curiousity, are there any people who actually have FreeBSD running inside a vmware VM? Evidence from the mailing list archives seems to suggest that it worked up to FreeBSD 3.2 and then stopped, never to work again. Kees Jan You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD on vmware
[ Picking any one to reply to... ] I have been running -current under vmware 2.x up until about August.. (it didn't stop working, but I vmware stopped running on -current due to KSE changes (patches now available I believe)).. i.e I was running -current under -current Thanks to all who responded. The fact that it works for some reassures me that it might work for me too. :-) I'm still at a loss what to do about the vmware and kernel panics. The vmware tools port is not a big help, since I have no FreeBSD to install it into. Kees Jan You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
