Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: Could you kindly share the steps you followed? It looks like that's what I have to do, as this app is commercial and I don't have that money now:-) Here's a page that describes the process:

FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Pieter Donche
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

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 dual

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
, and could use netwerking afterwards) The default settings of my VMware are (from Edit / Virtual Network Editor) Summary Virt. Network - Summary - Subnet - DHCP VMnet0 (Bridged) - Bridged to an automatically choosen adapter - - VMnet1 (Host-only) - A private nw shared with the host - 192.168.72.0

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: vmware tools for ESX Server 3.5

2008-09-04 Thread B. Cook
On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:11 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: I am setting up FreeBSD 7.0 and he is asking about the vmware-tools. Ports has some things, but I am not sure what I need, and neither is he. Can anyone tell me what it needs? I usually

Re: vmware tools for ESX Server 3.5

2008-09-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 04 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:11 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: I am setting up FreeBSD 7.0 and he is asking about the vmware-tools. Ports has some things, but I am not sure what I need, and neither is he

vmware tools for ESX Server 3.5

2008-09-03 Thread B. Cook
Hello, I am setting up FreeBSD 7.0 and he is asking about the vmware-tools. Ports has some things, but I am not sure what I need, and neither is he. Can anyone tell me what it needs? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: vmware tools for ESX Server 3.5

2008-09-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 03 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: I am setting up FreeBSD 7.0 and he is asking about the vmware-tools. Ports has some things, but I am not sure what I need, and neither is he. Can anyone tell me what it needs? I usually create VM's with the Intel gigabit vNIC's which can use

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-09 Thread Jeff Dickens
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:48:46 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping At 03:23 p.m. 06/06/2008, you wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-09 Thread Jeff Dickens
Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:23:41PM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote: option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. This shouldn't be necessary in FreeBSD = 6.2. hmm. I used to have kern.hz=100 in

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-08 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:30:27 -0400 Peter Thoenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the host

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-07 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:23:41PM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote: option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. This shouldn't be necessary in FreeBSD = 6.2. I used to have kern.hz=100 in loader.conf, but that caused the guest

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-07 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Jeff Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2. My problem is that the clock keeps *gaining* time. I have the timesync option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-07 Thread Peter Thoenen
I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the host How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you using your native OS? I have a similar setup and while it sync's on boot, I

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-07 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Peter Thoenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the host How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you using your

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-07 Thread Duane Hill
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:30:27 -0400 Peter Thoenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the host How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive

vmware timekeeping

2008-06-06 Thread Jeff Dickens
I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2. My problem is that the clock keeps *gaining* time. I have the timesync option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. I used to have kern.hz=100 in loader.conf

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-06 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 03:23 p.m. 06/06/2008, you wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2. My problem is that the clock keeps *gaining* time. I have the timesync option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. I used

RE: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-06 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:48:46 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping At 03:23 p.m. 06/06/2008, you wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2. My problem

freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object lib.so.6 not found

2008-06-04 Thread kevin kempter
Hi All; This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: I've done this: 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu 3) logged into the console as root 4) mounted the vmware virtual cd 5) copied the vmware tools tar.gz file

Re: freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object lib.so.6 not found

2008-06-04 Thread dex
On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:18 PM, kevin kempter wrote: Hi All; This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: I've done this: 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu 3) logged into the console as root 4) mounted the vmware

Re: freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object lib.so.6 not found

2008-06-04 Thread kevin kempter
On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:22 AM, dex wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:18 PM, kevin kempter wrote: Hi All; This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: I've done this: 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu 3) logged

Re: freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object lib.so.6 not found

2008-06-04 Thread dex
On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:48 PM, kevin kempter wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:22 AM, dex wrote: Try using the port vmware-guestd. It worked good for me. I'm pretty new to freeBSD. Is port a system command? If I run port at the root prompt I get port: Command not found or is is a port

Re: freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object lib.so.6 not found

2008-06-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
kevin kempter wrote: Hi All; This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: I've done this: 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu 3) logged into the console as root 4) mounted the vmware virtual cd 5) copied

Vmware/Xorg blues (was: Re: freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object lib.so.6 not found)

2008-06-04 Thread kevin kempter
On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: kevin kempter wrote: Hi All; This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: I've done this: 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu 3) logged into the console

Re: Vmware/Xorg blues

2008-06-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
kevin kempter wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: kevin kempter wrote: Hi All; This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: I've done this: 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu 3

Vmware debugging

2008-05-30 Thread Oren Almog
I have question regarding remote debugging a freebsd guest OS (running on vmware). Is to possible to debug such a machine by a non FreeBSD OS using a gdb version that was compiled with target=i386-pc-bsd ? Or must i use two virtual machines, both of them running FreeBSD ? Thanks Oren

VMware-server-1.0.5 on Linux host console on FreeBSD

2008-04-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've installed VMware-server-1.0.5 on some box running Linux (SuSE Enterprise 8); this VMware-server brings a console which connects to port 901 (default) and you can manage your virtual machines in the server with some graphical tool; as usual the VMware-server is only available

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-04-02 Thread Shawn Barnhart
GUI's either. Currently there is nothing that doesn't run correctly under VMWare and I have not seen any lack of performance or anything compared to a physical machine. Maybe if enough of us push to have the VMWare Tools developed and certified for use with VMWare that they might actually get started

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Terry Sposato
Jeff Dickens wrote: I just made a copy of /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/freebsd.iso from VMware Server v1.0.4 under a different name, and moved it to the ESX server. Then I mounted that ISO as a virtual cdrom on the freebsd guest, untarred the tools and ran the install script. It seems to work

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread David Robillard
. Currently there is nothing that doesn't run correctly under VMWare and I have not seen any lack of performance or anything compared to a physical machine. Maybe if enough of us push to have the VMWare Tools developed and certified for use with VMWare that they might actually get started. I might

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
of HGFS to FreeBSD. /quote It allows dymanic memory management by the VM Ware host? It also allows the VMWare host to gracefully shutdown the Freebsd guest? I get an error running an install on RELENG_7_0 I386. Making check in hgfsmounter gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\open-vm-tools

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 22:34:30 +0800 Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an error running an install on RELENG_7_0 I386. Making check in hgfsmounter gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Alexander Sack
I believe the issue is that MNT_NODEV which should be defined in /usr/include/sys/mount.h was deprecated and removed from FreeBSD: http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-cvs/gnats/conf/79715 At line 42 in hgfsmounter.c, add # define MNT_NODEV 0 Then rebuild. SHould work fine now. I

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:36:53 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the issue is that MNT_NODEV which should be defined in /usr/include/sys/mount.h was deprecated and removed from FreeBSD: http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-cvs/gnats/conf/79715 At line 42 in

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick)
On Tue, March 18, 2008 23:36, Alexander Sack wrote: I believe the issue is that MNT_NODEV which should be defined in /usr/include/sys/mount.h was deprecated and removed from FreeBSD: http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-cvs/gnats/conf/79715 At line 42 in hgfsmounter.c, add # define

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Alexander Sack
Comments below: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Gelsema, P (Patrick) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, March 18, 2008 23:36, Alexander Sack wrote: I believe the issue is that MNT_NODEV which should be defined in /usr/include/sys/mount.h was deprecated and removed from FreeBSD:

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 15:24:53 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bus_setup_intr() kernel API seems to have either changed or handled differently in 7.0. I believe you can add a NULL after the flags (INTR_MPSAFE) which tells BSD to use the standard interrupt handler instead

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread Alexander Sack
% sure what should really be there) and then all of it needs to be devtested. I use VMWare Fusion and have installed the existing vmtools that come with the product along with installing the individual X11 vmware driver which works for me but I agree it would be nice to have full port to FreeBSD 7.0

RE: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Sposato Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:04 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD SNIP Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made

RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Dickens Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:17 AM To: Terry Sposato; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD I use the vmware tools for freebsd from the free vmware

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-17 Thread Terry Sposato
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Sposato Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:04 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD SNIP Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Dickens
I just made a copy of /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/freebsd.iso from VMware Server v1.0.4 under a different name, and moved it to the ESX server. Then I mounted that ISO as a virtual cdrom on the freebsd guest, untarred the tools and ran the install script. It seems to work fine. A couple

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-17 Thread Peter Boosten
Terry Sposato wrote: Ted / Jeff, Could you please let me know where to download these free vm tools. The only description at google I can find is that of the actual VMWare Tools by VMWare. If you point me to a download link that would be great! Although my name isn't Ted or Jeff I

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-17 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
On Tue, March 18, 2008 11:40, Peter Boosten wrote: Terry Sposato wrote: Ted / Jeff, Could you please let me know where to download these free vm tools. The only description at google I can find is that of the actual VMWare Tools by VMWare. If you point me to a download link that would

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-17 Thread Peter Boosten
memory management by the VM Ware host? It also allows the VMWare host to gracefully shutdown the Freebsd guest? quote The following components have been released as OSS: * Drivers for devices and filesystems access * Memory ballooning * Shared folders * Drag and Drop, Text

VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Terry Sposato
Hi, Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers follow as well. It does work find under

VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Terry Sposato
Hi, Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers follow as well. It does work find under

RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Sposato Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD Hi, Is there any future development work being undertaken in order

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Peter Boosten
is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX. There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Peter Boosten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:29 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Terry Sposato; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:52:27PM +1100, Terry Sposato wrote: Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. I don't know if somebody is actually preparing an official port of http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ but I don't think it's too

RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Jeff Dickens
I use the vmware tools for freebsd from the free vmware server product for my esx-hoster freebsd servers. The good people at vmware are apparently not interested in adding official freebsd support to esx. -Original Message- From: Terry Sposato [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Terry Sposato
not what OP is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX. There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway. I figured that was what he was asking, but we should probably hear from him to make sure that this is really what he was asking. Unfortunately, the original post

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 17, 2008 10:03:54 AM +1100 Terry Sposato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, maybe I was not clear enough so I will try again. I want to run FreeBSD as a VM Guest on a VMWare ESX Server. Currently there is no problem with it and it works fine. The problems arise when you want to take

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-13 Thread Alexander Sack
Well, I'm stumped. ALT key just does not work as designed on my Fusion/FreeBSDS-7.0-RELEASE install. Its probably pilot error but I just don't see it. I even tried inverting the Alt/Option key to see if that would work. I thought the issue was I rebuilt a VMWARE kernel stubbing out a lot

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread Alexander Sack
of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard ( 10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE

Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread Alexander Sack
Hello Everydoy: I apologize if this isn't exactly the right place but I'm out of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard (10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread John Nielsen
but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard ( 10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other issue

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread Alexander Sack
but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard ( 10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-06 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:44:12PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: - The only thing that VMWare tools are useful (on FreeBSD) is to get GUI features like clipboard sharing and automatic mouse focus grab in X.Org. You're right, normally you don't need vmware-tools for running FreeBSD as a guest

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-06 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 8:44 am, Ivan Voras wrote: Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected? I mean, in 6.x the VMware

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-05 Thread James Seward
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Timer problems can be lessened (never solved, even with vmware tools) by reducing kern.hz to something like 50 or 100 Hz (in loader.conf), and installing ntpd. Installing the VMware Tools is a very good idea for timer

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-04 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Monday 03 March 2008 2:33 pm, Michael C. Cambria wrote: Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g. communities.vmware.com/message/352504), but it fails. This is the last piece I

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-04 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 9:51 am, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Monday 03 March 2008 2:33 pm, Michael C. Cambria wrote: Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g.

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected? I mean, in 6.x the VMware tools just work. Iv ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-04 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected? I mean, in 6.x the VMware tools just work. Iv

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-03 Thread Michael C. Cambria
Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g. communities.vmware.com/message/352504), but it fails. This is the last piece I need to make work. Suggestions? What's the problem you

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-29 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Thursday 28 February 2008 9:54 pm, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 09:48:43 pm Sean Cavanaugh wrote: which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare Server 1.0.4? guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. I haven't actually tried to use any version from

FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the same issue with RC3 and with the 7.0 release. Is this VMware problem (resp. shall we expect them to fix it) or FreeBSD problem (resp. shall we wait for 7.x until it works). Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread Barry Byrne
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the same issue with RC3 and with the 7.0 release. Is this VMware problem (resp. shall we expect them to fix it) or FreeBSD problem (resp. shall we wait for 7.x until it works). I've had

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barry Byrne wrote: I've had no problem installing the tools via the ports on 7.0 release on ESX server 3.0.1. ... cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/ make clean install reboot. I was thinking about the ports. How does the ports version compare to the official coming with the VMware

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare Server 1.0.4? guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. -Sean -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:56 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 February 2008 09:48:43 pm Sean Cavanaugh wrote: which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare Server 1.0.4? guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. I haven't actually tried to use any version from the ports recently, opting instead to manually use the tarball

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMwaretools)

2008-02-28 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMwaretools) which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare Server 1.0.4? guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. -Sean -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:56

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-27 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
Yioulos wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:17 -0500, John Nielsen wrote On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; apologies if I'm in the wrong place. The other day, I did

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-27 Thread John Nielsen
Nielsen wrote On Monday 18 February 2008 12:31:37 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:17 -0500, John Nielsen wrote On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-18 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
or on a VMware list; apologies if I'm in the wrong place. The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD on a CentOS 5.1 box running VMware server 1.0.4. I had previously successfully installed v. 6.2, and upgraded to 6.3 on the same box. All has gone well

FreeBSD 6.3 as guest: vmware-config.pl problem

2008-02-18 Thread Olivier Robert
Hi, I try to install FreeBSD 6.3 64 bits in a Fedora VMware Workstation 6.0..2. I have done the install by choosing ALL + no extra packages (but bash). Xorg is 1.4.0 I can have a working X with vesa drivers. When running ./vmware-config-tools.pl, I get the following

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 as guest: vmware-config.pl problem

2008-02-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 February 2008 03:07:48 pm Olivier Robert wrote: I try to install FreeBSD 6.3 64 bits in a Fedora VMware Workstation 6.0..2. I have done the install by choosing ALL + no extra packages (but bash). Xorg is 1.4.0 I can have a working X with vesa drivers. When running ./vmware

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-18 Thread John Nielsen
Yioulos wrote: I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; apologies if I'm in the wrong place. The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD on a CentOS 5.1 box running VMware server 1.0.4. I had previously successfully

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-18 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
wrote On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; apologies if I'm in the wrong place. The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD on a CentOS 5.1 box

FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-17 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
Hello to all. I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; apologies if I'm in the wrong place. The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD on a CentOS 5.1 box running VMware server 1.0.4. I had previously successfully installed v. 6.2

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; apologies if I'm in the wrong place. The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD on a CentOS 5.1 box running VMware server 1.0.4. I had

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-10 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick)
On Sat, February 9, 2008 20:40, Peter Boosten wrote: Quoting Shawn Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running X. Neither am I, so no X here. I am having problems with the vmware tools. It seems to die

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-10 Thread Shawn Barnhart
Gelsema, P (Patrick) wrote: I am having problems with the vmware tools. It seems to die, everytime when I start it or rebooted. Feb 10 13:22:25 wolverine kernel: pid 566 (vmware-checkvm), uid 0: exited on sig nal 12 (core dumped) $ uname -a FreeBSD wolverine.superhero.nl 7.0-RC2 FreeBSD 7.0

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Boosten
Quoting Shawn Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running X. Neither am I, so no X here. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Shawn Barnhart
Peter Boosten wrote: In my /boot/loader.conf: kern.hz=100 I rebuilt the kernel with options HZ=100 and this seems to fix it -- ntpd sync'd immediately and the clock does not appear to drift. When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Boosten
that helping, but any other strategies known to work? In my /boot/loader.conf: kern.hz=100 In the vmx-file: tools.synctime = TRUE I installed the vmware tools and ntpd That's about all. ntpdate -d 192.168.23.15: 9 Feb 20:26:47 ntpdate[45172]: adjust time server 192.168.23.15 offset

Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Shawn Barnhart
I know this is a major nuisance, but I can't remember how I dealt with it in the past. My most recent stab at using ntpd with minpoll 4 polling of a local ntp time source isn't working, the clock drift prevents any sync from happening (but I'll admit not trying some of the more aggressive

Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem

2008-01-09 Thread Sam Lawrance
system, BUT I’ve run into a problem… While running VMWare Server 1.0.3 with FreeBSD 6.2-p5 and Xorg 7.2, the mouse pointer behaves very oddly. The pointer appears in the wrong place on the screen for where the system actually thinks that it is. I’m using the vmmouse driver part of the Xorg

converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've a Zip archive with a VM which runs fine in VMPlayer on Linux; it is just the contents of the directory and the VMWare files in this like: $ unzip -t Evergreen_1.2.0_Gentoo_x86.zip Archive: Evergreen_1.2.0_Gentoo_x86.zip testing: Evergreen_Gentoo_1.2.0/ OK testing

Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Kimi
On 09/01/2008, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've a Zip archive with a VM which runs fine in VMPlayer on Linux; it is just the contents of the directory and the VMWare files in this like: $ unzip -t Evergreen_1.2.0_Gentoo_x86.zip Archive: Evergreen_1.2.0_Gentoo_x86.zip

Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
answers; but will do give it a try again; have you (anyone?) tried running VMware Player under FreeBSD's linux emulation? not me; matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399

Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Kimi
69 783 5743237+ 83 Linux maybe it is an idea to just punch the complete disk /dev/sda with dd(1) to a file outside the VM and convert/use this with Qemu? it was one of two other possibles I was going to suggest along with running VMware Server for Linux. maybe overkill? I just

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