Re: Installing VMWare 4.x

2004-12-16 Thread Phil Schulz
Ronnie Clark wrote: Has anyone successfully installed VMWare 4.5 Workstation on FreeBSD 5.3? If so, what are pitfalls or things to watch out for? i don't think vmware 4 works on freebsd since, iirc, the linux version loads a kernel module and thus can't be run under the linux compatibility layer

HZ=100 ?? vmware

2004-10-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
Okey, I found out I need to increase the HZ=100 default in the kernel config to a higher number. I also understand it decreases system response times. So, what I need to know is the lowest setup for HZ=??? to be able to run vmware3 in full screen. I got to get rid of the rtc: 100 kern.hz

Re: HZ=100 ?? vmware

2004-10-14 Thread Subhro
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:57:17 +0200, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Google tells me to increase to HZ=1200 but is this not too high? 1000 works nicely for me. Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India

Re: HZ=100 ?? vmware

2004-10-14 Thread jason
of the rtc: 100 kern.hz prompt. Google tells me to increase to HZ=1200 but is this not too high? In man polling a kernel config of HZ=1000 is the default if you want to use polling. I am not sure, but if vmware is using the same HZ setting as polling does then 1200 is not too high. If I understand

Re: HZ=100 ?? vmware

2004-10-14 Thread Phusion
of the rtc: 100 kern.hz prompt. Google tells me to increase to HZ=1200 but is this not too high? In man polling a kernel config of HZ=1000 is the default if you want to use polling. I am not sure, but if vmware is using the same HZ setting as polling does then 1200 is not too high

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread Gary
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:09:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, bsdfsse wrote: I give up on trying to get VMWare 3.2 to work on either FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x. Thank you to everyone who tried to help me. After 5 full days of trial and error on 3 machines, I think I can say it needs to be looked

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread bsdfsse
Just saw this.. There is a new kid on the block called. Serenity Virtual Station, very similar to VMWare, but they have just released a version specifically for FreeBSD.. This is beta software, (not free), and although If they supporr FreeBSD, then I will support them. I tried to purchase

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 02 October 2004 12:18 am, bsdfsse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just saw this.. There is a new kid on the block called. Serenity Virtual Station, very similar to VMWare, but they have just released a version specifically for FreeBSD.. This is beta software, (not free), and although

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread Christian Hiris
as soon as I hit the VM's Power On button. Curiously I tried to install VMware on an other, faster machine. The slow machine was a P3-850MHz 440BX chipset and a SiI 0680 with 2 gvinum mirrored hdds in UDMA133 mode - worked w/o problems. I moved the data over to the faster XP2800+ KT600 chipset

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread bsdfsse
Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=171871667 Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status Those are the same errors I am getting! It's somewhat of a relief to see other people getting the same

RE: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread JohnsoBS
-Original Message- From: bsdfsse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 4:54 PM To: Christian Hiris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up) Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA

VMWare 2 works on FreeBSD 4.10-Stable (except for NIC)

2004-10-02 Thread bsdfsse
I have everything working except for the networking (which is proving to be very difficult). I followed Phusion's guide for VMWare 2 and FreeBSD 4.10 located here: http://www.packetwatch.net/documents/guides/freebsd/vmware2.php Previously I had tried 4.10, but I think at that time I

Re: VMWare 2 works on FreeBSD 4.10-Stable (SOLVED!)

2004-10-02 Thread bsdfsse
I have mostly everything working now: special thanks to George Hartzell, Christian Hiris, Phusion, and Orlando Bassotto. I will write up my experience after I digest it a little more. A few of the gotchas were that I originally did not install bridging when I installed vmware, and when I did, I

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions?

2004-10-01 Thread bsdfsse
I'm going to try to install vmware2 instead of vmware3. I put a call in to VMWare to get a 2.0 license. I tried everything, I think. I'm new to FreeBSD, so that is kind of working against me. I will now try to dig up how to install vmware2 (I assume I don't have to make quite some many

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions?

2004-10-01 Thread bsdfsse
bsdfsse wrote: I'm going to try to install vmware2 instead of vmware3. I put a call in to VMWare to get a 2.0 license. I tried everything, I think. I'm new to FreeBSD, so that is kind of working against me. I will now try to dig up how to install vmware2 (I assume I don't have to make

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-01 Thread bsdfsse
I give up on trying to get VMWare 3.2 to work on either FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x. Thank you to everyone who tried to help me. After 5 full days of trial and error on 3 machines, I think I can say it needs to be looked at by a non-newby. The only time I got it to run was with a 5.2-Release

Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions?

2004-09-29 Thread bsdfsse
I am beginning to try and run the vmware3 port on FreeBSD-5.3beta6. First I upgraded the machine to 5.3-Stable by putting RELENG_5 in my stable-supfile. Next I went in to /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3 and ran: make make install I rebooted and ran vmware in a command window, and then entered

vmware

2004-08-27 Thread Emre BALCI
Hii I have installed vmware3 on freebsd 4.10 and I typed vmware the following error displayed; vmware-ui: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libX11.so.6: ELF file OS A BI invalid what is the problem ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo

Re: vmware

2004-08-27 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:25:36AM -0700, Emre BALCI wrote: Hii I have installed vmware3 on freebsd 4.10 and I typed vmware the following error displayed; vmware-ui: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libX11.so.6: ELF file OS A BI invalid what is the problem ? Did you enable Linux

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0729 22:29]: Hello everybody, If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Ben Paley
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:06, Dick Davies wrote: etc, etc... sod portupgrade - manually pkg_delete all the vmware crap, then pkg_add it. On boot, I get this message: kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or directory -bash-2.05b# locate

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. In order of increasing stability, they are: CURRENT = currently in development (Alpha) and by far the least stable of the 3 RELEASE = released to the populous at large (Beta) and fairly

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:20 am, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. In order of increasing stability, they are: CURRENT = currently in development (Alpha) and by far the least

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: Then why do I hear that 5.2.1-RELEASE is not ready to be called STABLE? FreeBSD's -CURRENT tree has generally been reasonably stable, but there have been periods (including quite recently with threading/#define PREEMPTION) where -CURRENT has not

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:31 pm, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: Then why do I hear that 5.2.1-RELEASE is not ready to be called STABLE? FreeBSD's -CURRENT tree has generally been reasonably stable, but there have been periods

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 21, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: [ ... ] OK, as I understand, the branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE. But I often see 4.10-STABLE recommended for production use. This is probably due to what you describe above. That's right, 4.10 is the latest -STABLE release. What does RELEASE

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:14 pm, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 21, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: [ ... ] OK, as I understand, the branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE. But I often see 4.10-STABLE recommended for production use. This is probably due to what you

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/21/2004 11:34 AM Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:20 am, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. In order of increasing stability, they are: CURRENT = currently

Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Ben Paley
Hello everybody, If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Chris
Ben Paley wrote: Hello everybody, If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2

RE: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Thompson, Jimi
SNIP bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window /SNIP Ben

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 22:32, Chris wrote: Why are you using CURRENT? Don't you know that you can expect things to break, not work, and overall see the end of the world as you know it? Well - maybe not the latter. Perhaps you might be better served running a STABLE branch instead of an

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Ben Paley
, hence the reason that you're using FreeBSD to begin with. We have some VERY vanilla web servers here that run 4.9, but again they are very basic and it doesn't take a whole lot to get apache and mod_perl to work properly. Since you are running VMWare and doing some unusual things with your

vmnet.ko missing - but it's there - vmware and crashes (repost)

2004-07-15 Thread Ben Paley
Hello, I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware

vmware crashes

2004-07-13 Thread Ben Paley
Hello everybody, this is me: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC

vmware version and license

2004-07-09 Thread Peter Risdon
The vmware port seems to be for version 3.2.1 but licenses downloaded from vmware's website are for version 4 and they don't seem to work with the earlier version. Is there a fix for this problem? Peter. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

vmware vs jails? (5.2.1)

2004-07-06 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi list, I have been considering using vmware instead of bsd jails for a virtual server provider. Jails are far too limited (1 ip only, quotas = per-jail fs,etc). I have never tried vmware with freebsd as a guest os, so I don't know if these limitations would apply.. What are your personal

Re: vmware vs jails? (5.2.1)

2004-07-06 Thread Dick Davies
* Hugo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0731 16:31]: Hi list, I have been considering using vmware instead of bsd jails for a virtual server provider. Jails are far too limited (1 ip only, quotas = per-jail fs,etc). I have never tried vmware with freebsd as a guest os, so I don't know

VMWare 4 with FreeBSD host OS

2004-06-09 Thread Aniruddha Bohra
Hello, Does the VMWare Workstation 4 work with FreeBSD as the host OS? I have it running on Windows with -current as the guest OS, but would like to run it as a host. Thanks Aniruddha ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: VMWare 4 with FreeBSD host OS

2004-06-09 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Aniruddha Bohra wrote: Hello, Does the VMWare Workstation 4 work with FreeBSD as the host OS? I have it running on Windows with -current as the guest OS, but would like to run it as a host. I don't think so. It requires some kernel-level

VMWare 4 Port

2004-06-02 Thread Oliver B. Fischer
Hello list, does someone know if someone is working on a VMWare 4 port? Regards, Oliver Fischer ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

about install vmware!

2004-05-22 Thread KYO
hi I downloaded the vmware 4.0 for linux program in my computer,when I type './vmware-install.pl',this install program request binary lsmod and other things.I read the handbook chapter 22,but I can't find any solution.So,please tell me how can I intall the vm4?(I don't want to install vm3 or vm2

Re: anyone using vmware to run freebsd

2004-04-21 Thread Joshua Lokken
* David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-21 15:02]: separate question.. didn't know how to phrase search for this. ARe there any self contained freebsd cd's. Something like knoppix which launches and loads a complete working freebsd from cdrom? There's FreeSBIE. http://www.freesbie.org/

Re: anyone using vmware to run freebsd

2004-04-21 Thread lists
David Bear wrote: i did a quick search of the web site and there was mention of using vmware to launch other os's from bsd, but is anyone using some other os to host vmware and then launch freebsd? separate question.. didn't know how to phrase search for this. ARe there any self contained freebsd

Re: anyone using vmware to run freebsd

2004-04-21 Thread lists
lists wrote: David Bear wrote: i did a quick search of the web site and there was mention of using vmware to launch other os's from bsd, but is anyone using some other os to host vmware and then launch freebsd? separate question.. didn't know how to phrase search for this. ARe there any self

Re: anyone using vmware to run freebsd

2004-04-21 Thread Mark
David Bear wrote: i did a quick search of the web site and there was mention of using vmware to launch other os's from bsd, but is anyone using some other os to host vmware and then launch freebsd? I use Vmware (both Workstation 4.5 and GSX server 3.0), on Win XP, 2003 server, respectively

Can FreeBSD do what vmware can do?

2004-04-20 Thread Jesper Wallin
Heya.. If you have a machine with vmware installed.. the machine has one NIC connected to a network which is using a DHCP server which only allow 1 ip per MAC. You start the box and you get an IP.. then you install vmware, install another operating system on it (doesn't really mather which

RE: Can FreeBSD do what vmware can do?

2004-04-20 Thread Nick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesper Wallin Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can FreeBSD do what vmware can do? Heya.. If you have a machine with vmware installed

More VMWare questions

2004-04-16 Thread Ronnie Clark
Hello all, I have just loaded VMWare3 from ports, only because I could not get the Linux version 4 to load correctly. But now when I input the license key that I have, it says that it cannot be found or doesn't match available licenses. Has anyone else bumped into this scenario? If so, what is

Re: vmware trouble

2004-04-13 Thread Yuriy Gerasimov
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 09 Apr Yuriy Gerasimov wrote: I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1. I cannot Power it On. I have just error Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. Failed to initialize SVGA device. I tryed to set up different OS

Re: vmware trouble

2004-04-12 Thread Benjamin Kohler
Hi Yuriy, On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:25:04 +0300 Yuriy Gerasimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1. I cannot Power it On. I have just error Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. Failed to initialize SVGA device. I

Re: vmware trouble

2004-04-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 09 Apr Yuriy Gerasimov wrote: I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1. I cannot Power it On. I have just error Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. Failed to initialize SVGA device. I tryed to set up different OS there (DOS and Win98

vmware trouble

2004-04-09 Thread Yuriy Gerasimov
I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1. I cannot Power it On. I have just error Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. Failed to initialize SVGA device. I tryed to set up different OS there (DOS and Win98) but always I had this error. Regards

License for vmware 3 (emulators/vmware3)

2004-04-02 Thread pUb_ BRonX
Hello, I need to use vmware under FreeBSD. Since vmware4 isn't ported yet (although I own I license for that version...), I need to use vmware3. I can't buy any license for that version, so I have to use evaluation licenses. The problem is that I don't think it's possible anymore to request

Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-19 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Sorry if I didn't make my question clear. I know my NIC card driver, the problem is when I start up BSD as a guest OS in vmware, it responds that it can't find a route to the network and I was inquiring if there was a different driver needed under vmware bridged-to-network. Thanks

FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-18 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed as a dual-boot. I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with bsd as the guest OS. My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to the network card. What settings do I need and/or network driver do I need to set??? Jim

Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-18 Thread JAroslav Suchanek
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:36:18AM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote: I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed as a dual-boot. I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with bsd as the guest OS. My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to the network card. What

Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed as a dual-boot. I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with bsd as the guest OS. My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to the network card. What settings do I need and/or network driver do I need to set

VMWare licensing file problem.

2004-02-06 Thread Geir Svalland
Hi everybody. I have a problem with the vmware licensing file after installing the vmware2 port. I've received an e-mail with the evaluation key, copied it into /home/user/.vmware, named it license2.0 but it don't seem to work. The message I get is that there is no valid license for this version

VMWare licensing file problem.

2004-02-06 Thread Sean Welch
Version 2 of VmWare is no longer sold so the evaluation license you got is most likely for version 4 (which does not run on FreeBSD yet). The confusion results from the fact that with version 2 you got a license file but starting with version 3 (which DOES run under FreeBSD) you are only supplied

Re: VMWare licensing file problem.

2004-02-06 Thread Geir Svalland
Hi Sean. Thx a lot for your answer. Helped me a lot. / Geir. On Friday 06 February 2004 16.07, Sean Welch wrote: Version 2 of VmWare is no longer sold so the evaluation license you got is most likely for version 4 (which does not run on FreeBSD yet). The confusion results from the fact

freebsd 5.2 running as vmware client broken?

2004-01-29 Thread jeff . king
Anybody have any sucess running/installing 5.2 under vmware? Doesn't seem to work past 5.1 for me. Jeff :) -- NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual or entity to which it is directed

RE: freebsd 5.2 running as vmware client broken?

2004-01-29 Thread Nick Twaddell
It is because FreeBSD comes with smp and apic precompiled into the kernel. VMware does not support smp. So you need to start it in safe mode, install, first boot, start in safe mode, recompile your kernel WITHOUT smp and apic. Then it will work like a charm :) Nick -Original Message

Re: VMware 3 crashes 5.2 system

2004-01-23 Thread Dany Nativel
Vmware3 worked for me under 5.2RC2... I haven't tried on 5.2 Release yet. The only thing that never worked was the full screen mode using either nvidia or nv driver. You can find some tips for installing VMWARE under FreeBSD at : http://www.packetwatch.net/documents/papers/vmware2.txt Here

Re: VMware 3 crashes 5.2 system

2004-01-22 Thread Quintin Riis
I'm pretty sure that VMware doesn't currently support 5.x in any fashion. Quintin Konrad Heuer wrote: Does anyone successfully run VMware 3 on 5.2-R? After upgrading from 5.1-R to 5.2-R my system crashes shortly after VMware begins to initialize. The modules vmmon etc. have been rebuild after

VMware 3 crashes 5.2 system

2004-01-21 Thread Konrad Heuer
Does anyone successfully run VMware 3 on 5.2-R? After upgrading from 5.1-R to 5.2-R my system crashes shortly after VMware begins to initialize. The modules vmmon etc. have been rebuild after the upgrade. Thanks for any hint. Konrad Konrad Heuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED

VMware and Full Screen Mode

2004-01-01 Thread Theresa L. Ford
Forgive the repost. The last was mistakenly threaded: Hi! Google is not looking promising on this topic. I have 4.9-STABLE, a nVidia GeForce Ti 4600, VMware 3, installed through the ports collection. When switching to full screen mode, the application terminates. Any help you can give me

FreeBSD as host OS for VMWare 4.0 (Linux Version)

2003-12-31 Thread Rick Pettit
Anyone have any success getting VMWare 4.0 (Linux Version) to run on FreeBSD Current (i.e. as host OS)? What versions of VMWare do work well with FreeBSD host OS? -Rick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

FreeBSD as host OS for VMWare 4.0 (Linux Version)

2003-12-31 Thread Rick Pettit
Forgot to mention in previous mailing that I am not on the list, so please cc me on any responses. Thanks. -Rick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMWare 4.0

2003-12-31 Thread wmrfreebsd
Anyone have any success getting VMWare 4.0 (Linux Version) to run on FreeBSD Current (i.e. as host OS)? What versions of VMWare do work well with FreeBSD host OS? -Rick The way I understand it (I may be wrong), is VMWare does its magic by hooking into the kernel (to mess with pagetables

Re: VMware and Full Screen Mode

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 04:10 pm, Theresa L. Ford wrote: Hi! Google is not looking promising on this topic. I have 4.9-STABLE, a nVidia GeForce Ti 4600, VMware 3, installed through the ports collection. Theresa, It's a really good idea to not reply to someone's message for a new post

VMWare 3, USB, devusbfs... Oh my...

2003-12-26 Thread Jacob S. Barrett
So I have done some googling and have come up with more questions than answers. Has anyone been successful at getting USB devices to work with the vmware3 port? I saw some messages over a year ago about needing to port usbdevfs to FreeBSD for Linux compat. After that I can't find any

FReeBSD 4.9 and X11 under vmware

2003-11-13 Thread RJ45
hello, I Am not able to make X11 work on vmware. anyone has done it before ? the problem if that when I choose vmware as video option then X does nto work and tells me: (EE) VMWARE(0): Virtual height (0) is too small for the hardware (min 128) (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable

lnc0 problems on vmware

2003-11-12 Thread RJ45
I Am using FreeBSD 4.9 and it works very nice with vmware. my guest host is windowsXP and I Am running FreeBSD from vmware inside windows XP. I have these errors in the logs lnc0: Missed Packet -- no receive buffer lnc0 what does it mean ? I Tried to search on the archives but no useful

Re: vmware in 4.9?

2003-10-02 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:11:43PM -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote: Is it possible to run vmware in FBSD 4.9? When I tried vmware3 it said it was broken for FBSD5 and vmware2 couldn't find the .tar.gz :-/ vmware3 is only for 5.x vmware2 works for 4.x -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I

Re: vmware in 4.9?

2003-10-02 Thread Jud
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:34:36 +0200, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:11:43PM -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote: Is it possible to run vmware in FBSD 4.9? When I tried vmware3 it said it was broken for FBSD5 and vmware2 couldn't find the .tar.gz :-/ vmware3

vmware

2003-09-30 Thread Ralph
Thanks for all the help with vmware.. got it runnin but cant use my cd or floppy ..so did a make deinstall oh well. thanks again, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

vmware in 4.9?

2003-09-30 Thread Timothy Luoma
Is it possible to run vmware in FBSD 4.9? When I tried vmware3 it said it was broken for FBSD5 and vmware2 couldn't find the .tar.gz :-/ Is there a 3rd possibility (besides WINE I suppose)? TjL ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

vmware

2003-09-29 Thread Ralph
I installed vmware 3 and it say's i need to mount linprocfs to run vmware can someone tell me how to do this plz. Thank you, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: vmware

2003-09-29 Thread Todd Stephens
On Monday 29 September 2003 05:33 pm, Ralph wrote: I installed vmware 3 and it say's i need to mount linprocfs to run vmware can someone tell me how to do this plz. man linprocfs SYNOPSIS linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 -- Todd Stephens Good people do

Re: vmware

2003-09-29 Thread Robert Petkus
mount_linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/pro Robert Ralph wrote: I installed vmware 3 and it say's i need to mount linprocfs to run vmware can someone tell me how to do this plz. Thank you, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: vmware

2003-09-29 Thread Thanatos
Ralph wrote: I installed vmware 3 and it say's i need to mount linprocfs to run vmware can someone tell me how to do this plz. Thank you, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

vmware?

2003-09-19 Thread Ralph
I was wondering someone had written to the list about vmware 3 and how yto get it to work. i tried from ports and it alway's comes up that it cant find the file when it goes out on the web to download the tgz file. Has anyone installed vmware 4 on free bsd 5.1 and gotten it to work and if so how

Odd vmware / vnconfig (?) configuration.

2003-09-14 Thread Lewis Thompson
/ad0s1 and WinXP is /dev/ad0s2. VMWare doesn't seem to like having the raw disk /dev/ad0 used. I'm guessing this is because I'm using that for FreeBSD at the same time. Therefore -- I wanted to know if it was possible to maybe provide a sort of symlink to /dev/ad0s2 that can be read as a file. I

4.8-Stable VMware performance

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Nottebrock
NOTE: Please CC me on answers, as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list, thanks! The subject has probably been discussed many times, still I can't find anything useful in the archives. I'm running a pretty recent FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE in VMware 4.0.1, with Windows 2000 being the host OS. I run

Linux compatibility VMWARE GSX 2.5

2003-08-18 Thread easlyneanar lorennan
I'm trying to install Vmare GSX 2.5 under FreeBSD 4.8 with the linux compatibility @@@ This is the output of the vmware-installer.pl original (see vmware-installer.pl in attach) @@@ Output after running here

Re: VMWare and FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop

2003-08-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Nugter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry if this is the wrong mail address but - as a newbe - I have a question. I installed on my laptop (using Windows XP; SP 1) VMWare 4 which runs O.K. I installed a virtual machine (VMWare 4) and was able to install FreeBSD 4.8 as a guest

VMWare and FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Nugter
I am sorry if this is the wrong mail address but - as a newbe - I have a question. I installed on my laptop (using Windows XP; SP 1) VMWare 4 which runs O.K. I installed a virtual machine (VMWare 4) and was able to install FreeBSD 4.8 as a guest on it. Although the configuration of XFree86

Getting X to work in FreeBSD 4.8 in VMware 4.0

2003-07-19 Thread Mick Ireland
Greetings !! I am installing FreeBSD 4.8 onto my Windows XP system, via VMware 4.0, and I am having trouble with getting X to work. I have recalled that the best way to get X to work, is to go back to stand/sysinstall, and choose the step-by-step method, rather than the all-in-one method. I am

Re: Getting X to work in FreeBSD 4.8 in VMware 4.0

2003-07-19 Thread Vitali Malicky
Greetings !! Welcom aboard, Mick! I have got the system up and running, just using the command line (which is good), as I am told that the command line is the most important part of the FreeBSD system. Any help will be appreciated - I am a complete newbie in this regard. try to begin from

vmware: how to get winxp on fbsd 4.8?

2003-07-05 Thread John Smith
i want to get winxp running using vmware inside fbsd 4.8. i have read some posts that have said that win2k is the newest version that's supported, not winxp? there must be a way to install winxp in vmware from within fbsd? let me know if any of you have done this. please be specific if you know

vmware networking with vmware3 and Freebsd 5

2003-06-18 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
Vmware 3 installed quite easily, and it was easy to install the guest operating systems. I can't get the networking going, however. What are the correct answers to the netgraph bridging questions? I assume it is yes to use it, but what about the device? vmnet? vmnet0? /dev/vmnet0? /dev/xl0 (my

vmware2 VMware Workstation PANIC: BUG F(571):1607 bugNr=2302

2003-06-13 Thread Anatoliy Dmytriyev
Hello, all! Suddenly, after upgrading of my FreeBSD-Stable box I got message from VMWare: VMware Workstation PANIC: BUG F(571):1607 bugNr=2302. Anybody can help me to fix this bug? (I tryed back to 4.8-release but it didn't help ...) Best regards, Anatoliy Dmytriyev

Re: vmware2 VMware Workstation PANIC: BUG F(571):1607 bugNr=2302

2003-06-13 Thread Randy Bush
Suddenly, after upgrading of my FreeBSD-Stable box I got message from VMWare: VMware Workstation PANIC: BUG F(571):1607 bugNr=2302. portupgrade -fR emulators/vmware2 randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

FYI: FreeBSD 5.0 under VMWare 2.0.4

2003-04-01 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, Whoever tried FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE/-current as a guest OS in VMWare (either 2.0.4 under FreeBSD 4.x or VMWare 3.2 under Windows NT platform) knows that it would run very slowly and even the system clock would run very quickly. One solution for this problem is to recompile your kernel

Re: [rofug] FYI: FreeBSD 5.0 under VMWare 2.0.4

2003-04-01 Thread Alexandru Balan
I installed the latest stable vmware on several architectures running 2k and XP and installed linux (slackware), netbsd and freebsd. I installed vmware on similar machines running linux (slackware) and FreeBSD, and as guest i installed netbsd (on slack), win98 (on slack), slack (on freebsd

Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-04-01 Thread Jud
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:08:38 +0100 (BST), james [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi [snip] As to Jud's problem, well, all you should have to do is get your windows host on the network any way you need, then use NAT on VMware. You'll then have a virtual network card on the guest OS - use DHCP

Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-03-31 Thread james
windows host on the network any way you need, then use NAT on VMware. You'll then have a virtual network card on the guest OS - use DHCP to configure it, and well it just works. There's no need at all to configure PPP on the guest OS - it just uses the host't TCP/IP stack, regardless of if it's

FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-03-31 Thread james
Hi Folks Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP SP1, running VMware 3.2. I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual machine just gets slower and slower. When I'm monitoring the stats using top, I notice that the CPU is spending

Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-03-31 Thread Jud
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:13:31 +0100 (BST), james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP SP1, running VMware 3.2. 4.7-RELEASE only thus far (see below). I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual

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