Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-03-31 Thread Andy Farkas
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, james wrote: 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

vmware2: vmware startup kills host interface

2003-03-18 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi all, i installed the vmware2 port and it works fine execpt for networking. I selected Netgraph bridging and bind to interface sis0, which is my machine's NIC. When i do /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware start, the module gets loaded, and my internet connection gets killed. Since this is a diskless

Re: VMware under 5.0

2003-03-14 Thread Grzegorz Czaplinski
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:59:34PM -0800, Remington L. wrote: I;m attempting to get Vmware2 working under 5.0-R-p4 but I'm having problems with my /dev/vmnetX. As anyone successfully gotten it working? Is there any way to get VMware 3.[1-2] working under FreeBSD? You don't exactly say what

VMware under 5.0

2003-03-13 Thread Remington L.
I;m attempting to get Vmware2 working under 5.0-R-p4 but I'm having problems with my /dev/vmnetX. As anyone successfully gotten it working? Is there any way to get VMware 3.[1-2] working under FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

vmware enlarging a persistant disk

2003-03-01 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Not a particular fbsd question but as I do run vmware2 on my fbsd box I ask it here ;-)) I have a win98 persistant disk (in vmware) that becomes too small. On a true windows system all you do is make an image, buy a larger harddisk an put the image back. This works great w/ ghost/diskimage

5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to a specific opcode emulation done by VMWare. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I just can't use 5.0 right now in this environnement. Thanks everyone Yvon Accédez au courrier électronique de La Poste : www.laposte.net ; 3615 LAPOSTENET (0,13 €/mn) ; tél : 08 92 68 13 50 (0,34€/mn

Re: 5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Kenna talked about a kernel option for fix this. The problem would be related to a specific opcode emulation done by VMWare. If you look in the file: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES You will find an option called CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG You need to compile a kernel which has this option when

Re: 5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there everyone At 10:51 AM +0100 2/13/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will find an option called CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG I read that one and didn't read (my newbie fault) that it was so closely related to VMWare. I realize you then have the problem of how to compile the new kernel

tyan dual xeon 1800 + vmware.2.0.4.1142 Trap 12

2003-02-06 Thread Karl M. Joch
hi, i have a production box where i need one w2k server running on top of freebsd 4.7. all tests on single cpu boxes was working great including suspend on shutdown and automatic boot w2k on freebsds startup. now i installed it onto the production box and start vmware via vncserver. i see w2k

Re: vmware 3.2

2003-02-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
will. I wouldn't hold my breath. The application is closed source, and the Linux version requires kernel modifications to make the application work. The obvious candidate for this project would be VMWare themselves; if you ask them, you can tell them that *I* would buy the product if they supported

Re: vmware 3.2

2003-02-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
There was a port of vmware2 to freebsd before. It doesn't require having access to the closed-source part of vmware 3, in fact, the port should for the most part be pretty straightforward, I was planning on trying it but I ran out of time and won't have time again until June at the earliest. Ken

Re: vmware 3.2

2003-02-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kenneth Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a port of vmware2 to freebsd before. It doesn't require having access to the closed-source part of vmware 3, in fact, the port should for the most part be pretty straightforward, I was planning on trying it but I ran out of time and won't

Re: vmware 3.2

2003-02-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
I'd looked over the Ethernet-virtualization drivers, and I thought they were pretty ugly (and accordingly scary), but given your previous success with tweaking the Linuxulator, I'm willing to accept your assessment. Well, it's not really just my assessment, it's actually in

vmware 3.2

2003-02-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
Does anyone know if somebody working on a port for vmware3.2? The difference between version 2 and 3 is very noticable, so I would be very happy w/ a running vmware3.2 under freebsd. I'm not able to do proting myself and thus can only hope someone will. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ --

Full-Screen display with VMware?

2003-01-31 Thread David Loszewski
When I try to go into fullscreen display in VMware my whole screen turns to all kinds of wierd colors and then I come up with a core dump for vmware. I'm using FreeBSD 4.7, what could be causing this? Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: Full-Screen display with VMware?

2003-01-31 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 18:24, David Loszewski wrote: When I try to go into fullscreen display in VMware my whole screen turns to all kinds of wierd colors and then I come up with a core dump for vmware. I'm using FreeBSD 4.7, what could be causing this? From the README.FreeBSD that comes

vmware under FreeBSD4.7

2003-01-27 Thread Axel Gruner
Hi. I just installed VMWare 2 under FreeBSD 4.7. The last time i used VMWare was with FreeBSD 4.5 and it run very well. So, installing is not the problem, starting vmware is also ok, but if i try to start a virtual machine, X hangs. After a few seconds the freebsd box is rebooting. What could

Re: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE in VMware

2003-01-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 17:36:39 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:44:18PM -0800, nate wrote: Michael Ritchie said: Not sure if this should be in -QUESTIONS or a report to VMware themselves, but when attempting to run FreeBSD 5 within VMware Workstation 3.2

Re: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE in VMware

2003-01-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:31:51PM +0930, Michael Ritchie wrote: Not sure if this should be in -QUESTIONS or a report to VMware themselves, but when attempting to run FreeBSD 5 within VMware Workstation 3.2 on a Windows XP Pro host, the CPU usage sits at 100% -- whether there are any processes

Re: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE in VMware

2003-01-25 Thread nate
Michael Ritchie said: Not sure if this should be in -QUESTIONS or a report to VMware themselves, but when attempting to run FreeBSD 5 within VMware Workstation 3.2 on a Windows XP Pro host, the CPU usage sits at 100% -- whether there are any processes undertaking heavy processing

VMware on FreeBSD

2003-01-21 Thread Okeke
Hello, I cannot use VMware 2.x on FreeBSD 4.7-prod because I don't have a 2.x license #. I use VMware for Linux host but I cannot use that 3.x license # on my FreeBSD system. Can you direct me to where I can find a work-around? or how I can run VMware 3.x on FreeBSD? Any help is much

Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware?

2002-12-07 Thread Alex
Dear/Beste David, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k is on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this win2k? or does the partition have to be FAT or FAT32? Dave To Unsubscribe

Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware?

2002-12-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Alex wrote: Dear/Beste David, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k is on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this win2k? or does

Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware?

2002-12-07 Thread Ken Jackson
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Alex wrote: Dear/Beste David, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k is on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this win2k? or does

NTFS with Wine and VMware?

2002-12-03 Thread David Loszewski
If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k is on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this win2k? or does the partition have to be FAT or FAT32? Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

installing VMware from ports

2002-11-22 Thread Islandman
I've looked through the archive but didn't find what I needed. Would like to install VMware on my FreeBSD box. Can I install the old ones from the /ports directory? How would I get a license for the old version2? Do I have to buy a license even for the older copies? Many thanks in advance

VMWare Fonts?

2002-11-20 Thread Ryan Sommers
I installed net/vmware2 however when I run it on my workstation all the fonts are blank. However, if I run it on my W2K desktop over X forwarding with Ssh I get it to at least show the menubars (however it locks up for some reason or another). Any ideas what fonts it uses or what I should do to

Self extracting archives (was: Re: vmware)

2002-10-23 Thread Dave Walton
On 10 Oct 2002, Nathan wrote: I've had people tell me that unzip may work sometimes, but under what conditions I'm not sure. I saw the pkzip port, but I couldn't find info anywhere telling me that it would extract .exe formated self-extracting archives. Have you used either of these tools

VMware Tools

2002-10-16 Thread Akthar Hussain
Hi , I am using Vmware workstation for Win32 Vr.3.0. it runs only 640x480.Can any one tell me from where i have to download Vmware Tools for Vmware workstation for Win32 Vr.3.0. Vmware tools available for 1.x and FreeBSD Guest Operating Systems only.it is avl in VMware.com. i am unable

Re: vmware

2002-10-16 Thread Vivek Khera
NT == Nick Tonkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NT Excuse me, but did you get networking working with win2k guest on NT freebsd? What I do is disable the netgraph bridging, since I don't like my interfaces constantly running in permiscous mode, then used NAT on the host with a private IP space to

Re: vmware

2002-10-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon The highest OS I've tested it with is windows 98. the higher os's do something

Re: vmware

2002-10-10 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon [ snip ] Excuse me, but did you get

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Nathan Kinkade said: I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days ago, everything seemed to work find including networking. However, I unistalled the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - both vmware and win2k. By the way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to get

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Nathan Kinkade said: I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days ago, everything seemed to work find including networking. However, I unistalled the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - both vmware

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Nathan Kinkade said: On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Nathan Kinkade said: By the way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to get at the contents of *.exe self-extracting archives. This problem was what led me to fiddle with vmware in the first place. unzip

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
on the vmware2 port just a few days | ago, everything seemed to work find including networking. | However, I unistalled the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - | both vmware and win2k. By the way, does anyone know of a | reasonable way to get at the contents of *.exe self-extracting

Re: vmware

2002-10-10 Thread Nick Slager
Thus spake Nick Tonkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Most seem to say that one should specify netgraph bridging while building VMWare but host-only networking when configuring a virtual machine. I've done that (and every other possible combination, I think!) but still no joy. It's closer than

Re: vmware

2002-10-10 Thread Nick Slager
Thus spake Nathan Kinkade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was just running it in 640x480 mode. It kept barking at me that I needed to install vmare-tools in order to run at a higher resolution. I installed vmware-tools and played around with it, but as soon as I looked at the XF86Config file

vmware

2002-10-09 Thread SweeTLeaF
I am wanting to try VMware to emulate XP and have a few questions for those who are using it. Currently i am booting between , freebsd, redhat and XP. These OS's are already installed on their own native partitions. This is my first question, I want to use freebsd as my host OS for vmware

Re: vmware

2002-10-09 Thread SweeTLeaF
ok, thanks but still i have the question about the installation of the guest os. can the guest os you want to emulate be already installed where you can just config vmware to use the already present partitions,or do you have to install the guest os/ 's under vmware? wolf wrote: vmware

Re: vmware

2002-10-09 Thread Scott Carmichael
you want to emulate be already installed where you can just config vmware to use the already present partitions,or do you have to install the guest os/ 's under vmware? wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon The highest OS I've tested it with is windows 98

Re: vmware

2002-10-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon The highest OS I've tested it with is windows 98. the higher os's do something ssid or something or other (advanced cpu instructions) which cause the guest os to puke. SweeTLeaF wrote: I

Re: vmware

2002-10-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
Excuse me, but did you get networking working with win2k guest on freebsd? - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^) On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon The highest OS I've

VMware 3.2

2002-10-01 Thread SweeTLeaF
I was wondering if its possible to run VMware 3.2 on Freebsd? Is there a port, package tool etc... to make this happen? Thanks gentlemen / ladies -- Best regards, SweeTLeaF mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

vMWare - access to internet through ISP

2002-09-23 Thread Daniel Jagodziski
I have vMWare installed under FreeBSD 4.6.2. vMWare is running W2K guest OS. The access to internet is going through ISP (cable modem attached to network adapter Realtek). The policy of ISP (in order to prevent private network behind one computer) is that each computer (or rather each network

Re: VMware 3.1 and FreeBSD

2002-07-18 Thread Jens Rehsack
Bob Bomar wrote: I was trying to install VMware 3.1 on my FBSD box, when I got to the configureing part, it gave me this error: [bob@warrior] ~sudo vmware-config.pl Password: Setup is unable to find the insmod program on your machine. Please make sure it is installed. Do you want

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