Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, install the Developer package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools (make all succeeded, but make install failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? That is strange. For testing, I just built a new VM using, VMWare Fusion v1.0 (51384) Mac OS X 10.5.1 PC-BSD 1.4 All went as expected. VMWare Fusion even survived the OS migration from 10.4 to 10.5. My only suggestions at this point would be... * Try another OS as a guest, see if you get similar results * Re-install VMWare Fusion * Check the VMWare forums for similar issues. * Purchase the latest Fusion version Hope that helps... -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 as the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, install the Developer package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools (make all succeeded, but make install failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? That is strange. For testing, I just built a new VM using, VMWare Fusion v1.0 (51384) Mac OS X 10.5.1 PC-BSD 1.4 All went as expected. VMWare Fusion even survived the OS mirgration from 10.4 to 10.5. My only suggestions at this point would be... * Try another OS as a guest, see if you get similar results * Re-install VMWare Fusion * Check the VMWare forums for similar issues. * Purchage the latest Fusion version Hope that helps... -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 as the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, install the Developer package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools (make all succeeded, but make install failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. It's mostly just to see if I can do it - I have a number of real servers running FreeBSD 6 and was looking to make a test-bed platform inside my laptop for convenience more than anything else. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? It's mostly just to see if I can do it - I have a number of real servers running FreeBSD 6 and was looking to make a test-bed platform inside my laptop for convenience more than anything else. Virtualized machines are good way to learn/develop/prototype, etc. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
