Re: sysinstall with Fixit option and RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot caused kernel panic on Vmware machine!

2010-09-21 Thread Indexer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/09/2010, at 7:29 PM, Phan Quoc Hien wrote: Hi everyone! I followed tut at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/ to install FreeBSD Root on ZFS using GPT on my VMWARE virtual machine. When I go to step Install FreeBSD to zroot

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
I could solve the boot problem of the USB key in the older laptop of my wife by inserting into /boot/loader.conf the line kern.cam.scsi_delay=1 (note: set kern.cam.boot_delay did not help) matthias -- Matthias Apitz «...una sola vez, que es cuanto basta si se trata de verdades

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
living in the cold and rainy Germany :-) Meanwhile I have updated the port emulators/open-vm-tools to version 253928 which compiles, installs and works just fine in my system. The vmware driver for Xorg gives you a lot of very high resolutions which hides all the Win shit behind the FreeBSD VM. I

vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: current# pwd /usr/ports/emulators current# mv vmware-guestd6 vmware-guestd6.old current# tar xzf ~guru/vmware-guestd6.tar.gz current# cd vmware-guestd6 current# make

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 00:59, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: Do you have a particular reason for using this port? Assuming you mean 8.X, the Tools

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 03, 2010 a las 01:14:00AM -0700, Rob Farmer escribió: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 00:59, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: Do

emulators/open-vm-tools do not compile (was: Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install)

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 03, 2010 a las 10:31:43AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: The VM is a VMware player 3.0.0 which says about itself Workstation 6.5-7.0 in the overview about the VM setup for FreeBSD; is this fine enough for the emulators/open-vm-tools? emulators/open-vm-tools does

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On 9/3/10 4:31 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: Do you have a particular reason for using this port? Assuming you mean 8.X, My FreeBSD is a CVS 8-CURRENT from May 2009

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 03, 2010 a las 08:51:08AM -0400, Glen Barber escribió: Hi, On 9/3/10 4:31 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: Do you have a particular reason

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 06:01, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I tried to install the vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz directly as VMWare.com it provides (I have compat6x already installed for some other reason). But in vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz there are only kernel modules for FreeBSD 6

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Apitz
files to reflect the new VM environment: /etc/rc.conf: - network interface is now em0, and not wlan0 /boot/loader.conf - sound (still not working) /etc/X11/xorg.conf - recreate the X11 config file the normal way install the vmware-tools for FreeBSD (still pending) 6. Some notes

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, August 31, 2010 a las 03:13:51PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Now I have already again my 'old' root partition booting to single user mode and I'm filling in the 120 GByte dump of the /usr ... The 1st try crashed the Win7 to blue screen over the night :-( The 2nd try was

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, August 30, 2010 a las 11:31:13AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time?

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the

installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player (was: running FreeBSD on Windows host)

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
. Will it be a problem having the kernel /boot/* in this case far away from the beginning of the partition? I did some 1st tests with installing FreeBSD into a VM. I grabed some other laptop which runs already Win7 and installed a VMWare-player in it to do some tests. Of course the VMWare-player was not able

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 27/08/2010 10:24 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias I've heard of stories of

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 27/08/2010 3:17 μ.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 04:20:41PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Try recreating, preferably newfs the key first. Don't be surprised if you find out you need a new USB key. newfs(8) did not worked; a format in Win7 lies that it was fine and stops later writing to it after 2

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread Rocky Borg
I haven't used vmware so I can't say if it's better but it didn't take me long to get freebsd up and running with virtualbox. Just follow the instructions at http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox You do have to install /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions/ on the guest. I got FreeBSD

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 28 July 2010 00:47, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: messing around with vmware and fbsd 8... has anybody used vmware esxi 4 to put a bunch of fbsd machines on it? i also installed the vmsphere client (they call it) which is pretty nice interface to interact with the virtual machines

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Polyack
On 07/28/10 09:05, Kevin Wilcox wrote: On 28 July 2010 00:47, kalin mka...@el.net wrote: so the question is which vmware tools should i get for the fbsd 8 guests to go with the esxi 4.1. in the ports there are vmware-tools6, 5, 4, 3. tried six. it wants some disk. there is also the open

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Wilcox
the memory balloon driver. If you only intend on using the vmware-guestd, vmxnet, and/or vmmemctl (memory ballon driver), then you can build with -DWITHOUT_DNET -DWITHOUT_ICU -DWITHOUT_FUSE to eliminate a few more dependencies. Steve - that's excellent advice. I'll try out open-vm-tools-nox11 on one

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread kalin m
/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11). There is both an x11 and nox11 version, both of which work very well. It also includes a handful of other drivers and modules, including the memory balloon driver. If you only intend on using the vmware-guestd, vmxnet, and/or vmmemctl (memory ballon driver

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread kalin m
so installed the open-vmware-tools-nox11 package... the vsphere ( the client interface) detects it but it says VMWare Tools: Unmanaged. any idea what that means? i did try to install from source off the sourceforge site without x and some other stuff but it's broken. thanks

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread kalin m
for the record - if anybody's interested... http://communities.vmware.com/thread/249774;jsessionid=79E1617AEC857E6B51C29539AD294AC9?tstart=0 kalin m wrote: so installed the open-vmware-tools-nox11 package... the vsphere ( the client interface) detects it but it says VMWare Tools

vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-27 Thread kalin m
hi all... messing around with vmware and fbsd 8... has anybody used vmware esxi 4 to put a bunch of fbsd machines on it? i also installed the vmsphere client (they call it) which is pretty nice interface to interact with the virtual machines but apparently doesn't know much on how to install

Freebsd 8 Release /usr Die After host VMWARE Crash

2010-07-06 Thread Diego Arias
Hi: I have a VM Running FreeBSD 8 as a small router/proxy/fetchmail/openvpn. The host system is a VMWARE ESX 4 Update 2 running on 2 HP DL460G1 Blade Systems. Unfortunately the Blade Enclosure (a C7000 From HP) start having malfunction so i have to power it off with blades still on. After

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
Adam Vande More writes: I'm not sure that floppies are still working in this fashion, but even if they are it may be easier for you to do this via pxe or optical media. You mean to create a CD image and put the install.cfg instead of using a floppy image?

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Francisco Reyes li...@stringsutils.comwrote: Adam Vande More writes: I'm not sure that floppies are still working in this fashion, but even if they are it may be easier for you to do this via pxe or optical media. You mean to create a CD image and put the

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
. If I was going to do lots of install PXE may be the way to go, but wondering if it is worth the effort for the handfull of times I would use it. For physicall install I will try USB. Right now jus trying to solve the issue with VMware just to get familiar with the install.cfg syntax

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 20 June 2010 05:19:30 Francisco Reyes wrote: Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 on a FreeBSD guest? Did the following to prepare the floppy #Create empty floppy image dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=/data/tmp/boot.flp #create md0

Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 on a FreeBSD guest? Did the following to prepare the floppy #Create empty floppy image dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=/data/tmp/boot.flp #create md0 and point it to floppy mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /data/tmp/boot.flp

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Francisco Reyes li...@stringsutils.comwrote: Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 on a FreeBSD guest? Any pointers will be greately appreciated. I'm not sure that floppies are still working in this fashion, but even

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 13:28:45 -0700 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I can't build it, I am getting the following errors. And message to freebsd-emulation@ from 02/10 was never answered. Don't bother. VirtualBox is eminently better and free. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As

Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 21:34:43 +0100 Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems

Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Yuri
/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/include -I/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/common -I/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd -I/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/export/include -I/sys -I/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3

FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries in the fstab

Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.orgwrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems

Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 17/03/2010 10:34 μ.μ., Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I

Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/17/10 16:34, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can

Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 17/03/10 21:40, Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/17/10 16:34, Erik Norgaard wrote: - I can't see the network devices from vmware Do you mean you can't see a NIC from within FreeBSD on top of VMware? You will have to choose Other (64-bit) for the OS type and/or choose the e1000/Intel1000 device

Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This is possible, I've run such a setup for a long time. But you don't say which versions

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Yuri wrote: I can't build it, I am getting the following errors. And message to freebsd-emulation@ from 02/10 was never answered. Considering that VMware is now at version 7 something I would just move on and use VirtualBox. 95% of the stuff VMware 7 can do it can do

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Yuri
Henrik Hudson wrote: There is currently a bug in the FreeBSD-stable kernel (newer then Jan 29th) or so which caused the current VirtualBox install to freeze. Just follow the intructions on the VirtualBox FreeBSD wiki to pull the latest 3.1.4 VirtualBox and you should be good.

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Yuri wrote: Henrik Hudson wrote: There is currently a bug in the FreeBSD-stable kernel (newer then Jan 29th) or so which caused the current VirtualBox install to freeze. Just follow the intructions on the VirtualBox FreeBSD wiki to pull the latest 3.1.4 VirtualBox

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Yuri
Henrik Hudson wrote: I've only ever installed Windows guests. Is the FreeBSD host system freezing up or the Linux guest install? I've installed various versions since VirtualBox hit ports and I've never had an issue, so I've never tried to troubleshoot anything, so I wouldn't know where to

FreeBSD 8.0 how to enter kernel debugger inside vmware

2010-01-27 Thread Daniel Mueller
Hi all I have an unstable machine running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE inside vmware. It freezes on average once a week but doesn't panic, so i would like to enter the kernel debugger, to at least being able to force a panic. Unfortunately, i have no serial interface and can't enter into the debugger

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 how to enter kernel debugger inside vmware

2010-01-27 Thread Andrew Brampton
You might want to recompile your kernel with the ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER option. This allows you to use CR~^b to enter the debugger instead of ctrl-alt-esc. Andrew 2010/1/27 Daniel Mueller d...@imp.ch: Hi all I have an unstable machine running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE inside vmware. It freezes

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
didn't know your experience with FreeBSD. [snip] The physical Ethernet adapter has a fixed public IP. I have only one public IP from the ISP. In the VMWare Virtual Network Editor, this i/f is listed as VNnet0, Type Bridged, Connected column is -, and Subnet Address is - [snip] I'd like to stay

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/27/2009 12:10 AM, Len Conrad wrote: VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-27 Thread Len Conrad
VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig shows the fixed IP, plus 2 192.168.c.d IPs from

which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-26 Thread Len Conrad
VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig shows the fixed IP, plus 2 192.168.c.d IPs

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/21/09 09:49, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Polyack
(and works) for Linux, but by what mechanism I do not know. On OpenBSD the kernel can be built to present a device which will use the synchronize time with guest feature of VMware to provide a clock source which can be specified in ntpd.conf. Perhaps you're right and all it takes is the switch

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
=100 or something lower than the default of 1000, otherwise your guests will use up a decent portion of your hosts CPU time, even when idle. Try it and see the difference. Yes, I see the difference using 100, thanks. I guess we're not able to install vmware-tools for 8.0 since the install does

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/17/09 16:40, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/17/09 16:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: The kern.hz=100 recommendation I can certainly agree with, but there is mostly no point in running ntpd or variants anywhere except on the host machine (host ESX for VMware, or Dom0 for Xen). For VMware

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
mechanism I do not know. On OpenBSD the kernel can be built to present a device which will use the synchronize time with guest feature of VMware to provide a clock source which can be specified in ntpd.conf. Perhaps you're right and all it takes is the switch in ESX. I've disabled ntpd on one

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend switching to VMware ESXi if at all possible. I

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: I would really recommend switching to VMware ESXi if at all possible. I have a lot of FreeBSD VMs running under ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 that work just great with kern.hz=100 and openntpd. The kern.hz=100 recommendation I can certainly agree

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/17/09 16:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: The kern.hz=100 recommendation I can certainly agree with, but there is mostly no point in running ntpd or variants anywhere except on the host machine (host ESX for VMware, or Dom0 for Xen). For VMware, the vmtools stuff should provide a mechanism

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
time now fine. Since I am a programmer and not a system admin, not sure what this does and would like to know, what is the kern.hz telling FreeBSD? I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware

slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the mountroot prompt and would not recognize my ufs:/dev/da0s1a partition when tried. I went to FixIt and removed the line from the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in the format: kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrickrob...@webtent.com wrote: I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Maxim Khitrov
then, let alone getting to any prompt including mountroot :( I've never encountered that problem. I have two VMWare servers running 7.2, and this is the only way to get semi-accurate time keeping. You still have to run ntpd to keep the clock from drifting. Maybe remove the other settings from

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Robert Fitzpatrick li...@webtent.net writes: On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According

xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

2009-11-02 Thread Peter
be better? linux - xen - freebsd/whatever or freebsd - virtualbox - freebsd/whatever or [don't really care for] linux - vmware workstation - freebsd/whatever [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] Has anyone done something similar, especially the xen type of setup or would one

Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

2009-11-02 Thread Glen Barber
 netbsd - xen - freebsd/whatever [if it'll work] or would the following be better?  linux - xen - freebsd/whatever or  freebsd - virtualbox - freebsd/whatever or [don't really care for]  linux - vmware workstation - freebsd/whatever    [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] Has anyone

Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

2009-11-02 Thread Adam Vande More
netbsd - xen - freebsd/whatever [if it'll work] or would the following be better? linux - xen - freebsd/whatever or freebsd - virtualbox - freebsd/whatever or [don't really care for] linux - vmware workstation - freebsd/whatever [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] Has anyone

Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

2009-11-02 Thread Peter
 netbsd - xen - freebsd/whatever [if it'll work] or would the following be better?  linux - xen - freebsd/whatever or  freebsd - virtualbox - freebsd/whatever or [don't really care for]  linux - vmware workstation - freebsd/whatever    [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] Has

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread John Nielsen
of storage does the server have? Did the VM just get a .vmdk on VMFS? What version of ESX? Benchmarks: # time make -j4 buildworld (under vmware) 5503.038u 3049.500s 1:15:46.25 188.1% 5877+1961k 3298+586716io 2407pf+0w # time make -j4 buildworld (native) 4777.568u 992.422s 33:02.12 291.1

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if I can keep the abstraction performance loss to 25% (my ultimate goal would be 15%). usable memory = 8575160320 (8177 MB) avail memory =

RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Dean Weimer
= 8273620992 (7890 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7: Benchmarks: # time make -j4 buildworld (under vmware) 5503.038u 3049.500s 1:15:46.25 188.1% 5877+1961k 3298+586716io

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Polyack
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. See above about storage. Similar questions come up

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
From: John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net Subject: Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:22 AM On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: This message has a foot that has

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
performance. VMWare (if I understood right in the first place and remember correctly as well, I supposed I should * this as well. :) ) doesn't add anything to slow that down. Plugging in a USB drive to the Host and making it available to the guest would also be at native USB/drive speeds

RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
From: Dean Weimer dwei...@orscheln.com Subject: RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: st...@ibctech.ca Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:49 AM [snip] servers while running between datacenters.  Also keep in mind that as of vSphere 4 (We

VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7: Benchmarks: # time make -j4 buildworld (under vmware) 5503.038u 3049.500s 1:15:46.25 188.1% 5877+1961k 3298+586716io 2407pf+0w # time make -j4 buildworld (native

Re: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi

2009-05-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:44 AM 5/6/2009, Daniels Vanags wrote: We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying to boot, getting error

Re: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi

2009-05-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 13:44 +0300, Daniels Vanags wrote: We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying

FreeBSD on VMware ESXi

2009-05-06 Thread Daniels Vanags
We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying to boot, getting error: BTX halted. Please explain, how to start

Re: how to install vmware-server on freebsd 7.1

2009-04-30 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:51:16 +0800 Mail wrote: Good day to everybody, I have a problem with installation vmware-server 2 for linux on my freebsd 7.1. i install it from rpm. before it, i installed linux_base_f9, load linux.ko, mount linprocfs. You may have problems with FreeBSD-7.1

how to install vmware-server on freebsd 7.1

2009-04-29 Thread Mail
Good day to everybody, I have a problem with installation vmware-server 2 for linux on my freebsd 7.1. i install it from rpm. before it, i installed linux_base_f9, load linux.ko, mount linprocfs. When i run sudo rpm -i --ignoreos --dbpath /lib/var/rpm --root /compat/linux vmware

Freebsd, VMware and pertition alignment

2009-04-15 Thread Marcelo Souza
Hi All, Trying to fine tunning an installation of FreeBSD 7 (amd64) on an ESXi server. Anyone here has experience with partition alignment as described here: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/resources/608 My conclusion is that in the RAID/VMFS side, my system is aligned, but I'm not sure about

Re: To meke Desktop FreeBSD setting up by Xorg -- under VMWare?

2009-02-28 Thread Stephan Lichtenauer
by Xorg on VMware Fusion act 2. Or I want to know how to setting command by GUI. I use MacBookPro 15inch USkeyboard. If you know the way ,please tell me that. pcbsd.org has a downloadable VMWare image. Even if you don't use their whole setup, you can use their xorg.conf as a starting point

Re: To meke Desktop FreeBSD setting up by Xorg -- under VMWare?

2009-02-27 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, ?? ?? wrote: Nice to meet you. I'm japanese ,Katsurou Takahash. I started to use FreeBSD to constitute my file server and I want to use FreeBSD as Desktop OS. I would like to know how to setting FreeBSD as Desktop OS by Xorg on VMware Fusion act 2. Or I want to know how

Re: To meke Desktop FreeBSD setting up by Xorg -- under VMWare?

2009-02-26 Thread Hashimoto
I installed xorg,ipa-ttfonts,xfce4 and sudo. And I make install clean. I tried the next setting of xorg.conf, but failed. please tell me how to rewrite the xorg.conf file or send me the file. Hello. Did you try Xorg -configure command? It will create xorg.conf.new automatically. Then, you can

To meke Desktop FreeBSD setting up by Xorg -- under VMWare?

2009-02-25 Thread 高橋 克郎
Nice to meet you. I'm japanese ,Katsurou Takahash. I started to use FreeBSD to constitute my file server and I want to use FreeBSD as Desktop OS. I would like to know how to setting FreeBSD as Desktop OS by Xorg on VMware Fusion act 2. Or I want to know how to setting command by GUI. I use

Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hi, For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I have the hard disk connected to the XP box? -- Best regards, Odhiambo

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread DAve
Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread Steve Polyack
DAve wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html DAve VMware Converter on supports source physical

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread DAve
a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html I can't remember why I didn't use this when I last did P2V on a FreeBSD box, but I

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:41 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: Nope, the starter edition is free. Believe me, if we had to pay for it, my boss wouldn't let me use it 8^( What are the restrictions on the starter version? Maybe one of those is why I ended up not using it. If it will do

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