Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Luke Bakken
You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to add new disks without a reboot but, as I described below, have not found a way to get the

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Luke Bakken wrote: You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to add new disks without a reboot but, as I described

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Devin Teske
On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote: You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to add new disks without a reboot but, as

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Lucian
On 18 December 2012 15:27, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote: Live resize (without reboot even) is something being worked on for the future 10.x series. Looking forward to this, we can't offer cloud instances with FreeBSD until this

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-17 Thread Devin Teske
It can be done but it's not easy and not pretty. You'll have to rewrite the partition scheme to grow *only* the last partition and then use growfs on the last partition to zero the new inodes within its newly defined range. You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. I

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:

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: - The

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 of the

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 to

Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? The boot manager can be whichever you want. If you are installing on a VM, chances are you're not

Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? Yes, or choos not to install a boot manager. Both worked with freebsd 6.x and ESX 2.5x Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one

Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Pieter Donche
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This would be contingent on how you have networking set up. Do you have NAT or Bridged only? If NAT, use rc.conf with the

Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This would be contingent on how you have

Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Pieter Donche
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This

Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:57 AM 11/22/2008, Pieter Donche wrote: If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? You

Re: FreeBSD and VMWare

2006-06-24 Thread Rico
I have never gotten vmware to run as a program under FreeBSD, i.e. using FreeBSD as the host for other vmware machines. I have tried several times. Technically, VMWare doesn't support it. We have used FreeBSD at our company as a host for some Windows XP based machines running on VMWare 3

Re: FreeBSD and VMWare

2006-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to YTResearch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed that someone asked questions concerning VMware on FreeBSD which was my first realization that the two even go together. I have the opportunity to advocate FreeBSD as a possible replacement to run that software as a parting shot in

Re: freebsd and vmware?

2005-09-21 Thread Aaron Peterson
On 9/21/05, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:23, mgedv online wrote: is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on a logical partition? has anyone successfully setup such a configuration? A. if you want to install FreeBSD using vmware in Windows,

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-21 Thread sd
Try to parse /boot/beastie.4th Message: 30 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:37:07 -0400 From: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I've had problems

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
Aaron Peterson wrote: I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in Safe Mode it works great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Peterson
On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Aaron Peterson wrote: I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in Safe Mode it works great. So... I want to learn

Re: freebsd and vmware?

2005-09-20 Thread Yuan Jue
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:23, mgedv online wrote: is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on a logical partition? has anyone successfully setup such a configuration? A. if you want to install FreeBSD using vmware in Windows, the answer is YES B. if you want to install vmware in

Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org

2005-02-24 Thread Jason Henson
On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote: I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org

2005-02-24 Thread pete wright
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:37:53 -0500, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm

Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
Jason Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote: I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where

Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-19 Thread J. W. Ballantine
for the response. Jim -- In Response to your message - Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:28:34 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. W. Ballantine) From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net I have a box with w2k

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???

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 to

Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-03-31 Thread james
Hi Thanks to all those who suggested that kernel parameter, I'll get a new kernel built - new to freebsd so hopefully compiling a kernel on a different system isn't too hard, Guess I just need to copy /modules and /kernel over. As to Jud's problem, well, all you should have to do is get your

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

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