Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 13:35:29 Matthias Apitz wrote: 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? Yes, that's going to work. You'll be much better if boot (or switch) to single user mode to avoid writes on the mounted filesystems while copying... Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 19:26 +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 09/01/2008, at 10:31 AM, Bob Finch wrote:
On 10/10/2007, at 17:00:22, Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 10/07/2007, at 11:53 AM, Webster, Andrew wrote:
Howdy,
I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just
installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an
existing 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 system, as the
regular mouse driver doesn’t appear to work at all, unless some
settings are amiss.
I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/
out of the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes.
Has anyone experienced similar problems and/ or know of a fix for
this?
Andrew,
I just set up VMWare Fusion with FreeBSD and have a problem that
might be related. Ascii art time:
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|_| |
| |
| |
|___|
The pointer appears normally on the screen. However, clicking around
the screen does not work except in a small area in the top left
corner. Moving the mouse within this tiny corner seems to scale up
and operate on the entire screen. Eg. if I click and drag across the
tiny corner, I can see the selection appear across the entire
desktop.
Is this similar to your issue? Did you find a resolution?
Sam,
I ran into this problem on FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 with Xorg 7.3 using the
VMWare mouse driver (vmmouse).
Apparently, X server 1.4.0 in Xorg 7.3 no longer calls the
conversion_proc
function in the mouse driver. The VMWare mouse driver depends on that
call to scale the mouse coordiates to the screen size.
As a workaround, I fetched the x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse port and
patched src/vmmouse.c by hand before installing it:
bob polaris[9]: diff -u orig/xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/
vmmouse.c xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c
--- orig/xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c2007-09-25
16:11:47.0 -0700
+++ xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c 2008-01-08
14:58:59.0 -0800
@@ -964,8 +964,11 @@
VMMOUSE_INPUT_DATA vmmouseInput;
int ps2Buttons = 0;
int numPackets;
+ VMMousePrivPtr mPriv;
+ double factorX, factorY;
pMse = pInfo-private;
+ mPriv = pMse-mousePriv;
while((numPackets = VMMouseClient_GetInput(vmmouseInput))){
if (numPackets == VMMOUSE_ERROR) {
VMMouseClient_Disable();
@@ -990,6 +993,13 @@
dy = vmmouseInput.Y;
dz = (char)vmmouseInput.Z;
dw = 0;
+
+ /* X server 1.4.0 does not call VMMouseConvertProc() so we
scale coordinates here */
+ factorX = ((double) screenInfo.screens[mPriv-screenNum]-
width) / (double) 65535;
+ factorY = ((double) screenInfo.screens[mPriv-screenNum]-
height) / (double) 65535;
+ dx = dx * factorX + 0.5;
+ dy = dy * factorY + 0.5;
+
/* post an event */
pMse-PostEvent(pInfo, buttons, dx, dy, dz, dw);
}
Oh wow, I owe you a beer!
Any idea why this does not affect everyone using vmware?
The problem only shows up with the vmmouse driver in Xorg 7.3. If
you're using an older version of Xorg or if you're using the
standard mouse driver, you won't see the problem.
It sounds like the next Xorg server release will fix the problem.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2007-September/028624.html
-- Bob
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Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem
On 10/10/2007, at 17:00:22, Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 10/07/2007, at 11:53 AM, Webster, Andrew wrote:
Howdy,
I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just
installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an
existing 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 system, as the
regular mouse driver doesn’t appear to work at all, unless some
settings are amiss.
I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/
out of the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes.
Has anyone experienced similar problems and/ or know of a fix for
this?
Andrew,
I just set up VMWare Fusion with FreeBSD and have a problem that
might be related. Ascii art time:
_
|_| |
| |
| |
|___|
The pointer appears normally on the screen. However, clicking around
the screen does not work except in a small area in the top left
corner. Moving the mouse within this tiny corner seems to scale up
and operate on the entire screen. Eg. if I click and drag across the
tiny corner, I can see the selection appear across the entire desktop.
Is this similar to your issue? Did you find a resolution?
Sam,
I ran into this problem on FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 with Xorg 7.3 using the
VMWare mouse driver (vmmouse).
Apparently, X server 1.4.0 in Xorg 7.3 no longer calls the conversion_proc
function in the mouse driver. The VMWare mouse driver depends on that
call to scale the mouse coordiates to the screen size.
As a workaround, I fetched the x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse port and
patched src/vmmouse.c by hand before installing it:
bob polaris[9]: diff -u orig/xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c
xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c
--- orig/xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c2007-09-25
16:11:47.0 -0700
+++ xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c 2008-01-08 14:58:59.0
-0800
@@ -964,8 +964,11 @@
VMMOUSE_INPUT_DATA vmmouseInput;
int ps2Buttons = 0;
int numPackets;
+ VMMousePrivPtr mPriv;
+ double factorX, factorY;
pMse = pInfo-private;
+ mPriv = pMse-mousePriv;
while((numPackets = VMMouseClient_GetInput(vmmouseInput))){
if (numPackets == VMMOUSE_ERROR) {
VMMouseClient_Disable();
@@ -990,6 +993,13 @@
dy = vmmouseInput.Y;
dz = (char)vmmouseInput.Z;
dw = 0;
+
+ /* X server 1.4.0 does not call VMMouseConvertProc() so we scale
coordinates here */
+ factorX = ((double) screenInfo.screens[mPriv-screenNum]-width) /
(double) 65535;
+ factorY = ((double) screenInfo.screens[mPriv-screenNum]-height) /
(double) 65535;
+ dx = dx * factorX + 0.5;
+ dy = dy * factorY + 0.5;
+
/* post an event */
pMse-PostEvent(pInfo, buttons, dx, dy, dz, dw);
}
-- Bob
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VMware with Graphic hardware support
Hello, I had seen that VMwares latest version uses hardware acceleration for graphics, and it is a pretty nice way to avoid reboot pc just to use some win32/linux software for a couple of minutes/hours... I got a Nvidia card, do u think the port of VMware will be able to use these feature and run some graphical applications with 3d acceleration? Thanks for any info. PS: just in case u didnt noticed it... English is not my language :-( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, install the Developer package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools (make all succeeded, but make install failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? That is strange. For testing, I just built a new VM using, VMWare Fusion v1.0 (51384) Mac OS X 10.5.1 PC-BSD 1.4 All went as expected. VMWare Fusion even survived the OS migration from 10.4 to 10.5. My only suggestions at this point would be... * Try another OS as a guest, see if you get similar results * Re-install VMWare Fusion * Check the VMWare forums for similar issues. * Purchase the latest Fusion version Hope that helps... -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 as the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, install the Developer package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools (make all succeeded, but make install failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? That is strange. For testing, I just built a new VM using, VMWare Fusion v1.0 (51384) Mac OS X 10.5.1 PC-BSD 1.4 All went as expected. VMWare Fusion even survived the OS mirgration from 10.4 to 10.5. My only suggestions at this point would be... * Try another OS as a guest, see if you get similar results * Re-install VMWare Fusion * Check the VMWare forums for similar issues. * Purchage the latest Fusion version Hope that helps... -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 as the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, install the Developer package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools (make all succeeded, but make install failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. It's mostly just to see if I can do it - I have a number of real servers running FreeBSD 6 and was looking to make a test-bed platform inside my laptop for convenience more than anything else. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? It's mostly just to see if I can do it - I have a number of real servers running FreeBSD 6 and was looking to make a test-bed platform inside my laptop for convenience more than anything else. Virtualized machines are good way to learn/develop/prototype, etc. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMware FreeBSD to Physical
Hi, I've got a VMWare guest running FreeBSD 6.2 which I'd like to move to a physical machine. I've tried ghosting it, but when it gets to the Default: F5 Disk0 screen (sorry, I don't know the appropriate name for it), it refuses to go any further. Can anything be done to fix this? Or is there a better way of doing the whole procedure? If it matters, I'm attempting to move it to an old IBM NetVista A21 (Celeron 1.3/256MB). Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware FreeBSD to Physical
Milosh Djuric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a VMWare guest running FreeBSD 6.2 which I'd like to move to a physical machine. I've tried ghosting it, but when it gets to the Default: F5 Disk0 screen (sorry, I don't know the appropriate name for it), it refuses to go any further. Can anything be done to fix this? Or is there a better way of doing the whole procedure? VMWare has a tool specifically for doing this. Don't remember what it's called, but I expect it will give you the best results. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware FreeBSD to Physical
Milosh Djuric wrote: Hi, I've got a VMWare guest running FreeBSD 6.2 which I'd like to move to a physical machine. I've tried ghosting it, but when it gets to the Default: F5 Disk0 screen (sorry, I don't know the appropriate name for it), it refuses to go any further. Can anything be done to fix this? Or is there a better way of doing the whole procedure? See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-trouble.html#Q2.11.3.3. Were I in your shoes I would make sure to run (revert to?) a GENERIC kernel in the VM then use g4u to image the entire drive(s). But this will only work if the destination drive is larger than the source. There are many things that can go wrong in this sort of procedure and you should plan to be cunning and persistent or fail in your attempts. It may be that you are using the wrong approach also, because rsync can be a wonderful alternative for these types of scenarios as can knoppix + dd + netcat. -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.' Mark D. Foster, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware FreeBSD to Physical
Milosh Djuric wrote: Hi, The rsync method sounds interesting. Could you give me a quick summary of what I'd need to do? Please don't top post. You can see what I mean about using rsync in this way at http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Xen_Clone -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.' Mark D. Foster, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysinstall segfaults on FreeBSD-7.0-beta3/i386 VMWare
Hello, I tried installing today the latest release of FreeBSD on a VMWare virtual machine, but have issues doing so because sysinstall segfaults (signal 11) when installing with profile X-Kern Developer and X Developer (or similar words) after downloading and installing core system. Having added the DEBUG option and retried, I got the same message (see message below) but debug doesn't print much more. Do you have any clue? Actual message: A signal 11 was caught - I'm saving what I can and shutting down. [...] On the debug side, I have the following: DEBUG: package check for 0.3 xmlcatmgr-2.2 xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps [...] xvid-1.1.3,1 returns failure. DEBUG: Signal 11 caught! That's bad! More details: - FreeBSD-7.0-beta3/i386 bootonly CD image - FTP mirror used is France - VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 - 512MB memory virtual machine - 8 GB virtual disk with default partitioning cheers, -- Renaud Thawte Notary - www.thawte.com CAcert Assurer - www.cacert.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
vmware system speeker beeps
I am running freebsd on as a vmware guest system on a Latitude D620 laptop which has a problem with some VM's with beeping. On Linux systems I have found a few ways of shutting off the system speaker. Is there a way of shutting of the system speaker driver on Linux. I could not find it within the dmesg or /dev directory? Does anyone have an idea how to shut off the system speaker. Thanks Wheely __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debugging FreeBSD running on VMware
Hi, I want to attach gdb to my FreeBSD kernel (6.2 RELEASE-p8) running on VMware. My host OS is Ubuntu Linux 7.04. I've created a virtual serial port, which terminates in a named pipe on my host OS. What other steps do I need to take to be able to step through and debug my kernel? Will gdb automatically find the source code if its copied to /usr/src on my host? Thanks. - Akshay Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem
On 10/07/2007, at 11:53 AM, Webster, Andrew wrote: Howdy, I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an existing 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 system, as the regular mouse driver doesn’t appear to work at all, unless some settings are amiss. I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/ out of the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes. Has anyone experienced similar problems and/ or know of a fix for this? Andrew, I just set up VMWare Fusion with FreeBSD and have a problem that might be related. Ascii art time: _ |_| | | | | | |___| The pointer appears normally on the screen. However, clicking around the screen does not work except in a small area in the top left corner. Moving the mouse within this tiny corner seems to scale up and operate on the entire screen. Eg. if I click and drag across the tiny corner, I can see the selection appear across the entire desktop. Is this similar to your issue? Did you find a resolution? Cheers Sam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 VMware Server
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:31:09 -0700
Rogelio Bastardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to install the latest FreeBSD boot cd on a VMware Server
(running on CentOS).
works fine here (i have several FBSD 6 VMs under VMWare Server 1.0x under
Centos 4.4 and Centos 5) can you please be more specific, what is the exact
version + date of the latest FreeBSD boot cd you are using?
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BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 VMware Server
I'm trying to install the latest FreeBSD boot cd on a VMware Server (running on CentOS). When I boot (whether it's option 1 or 2), I always get the same BTX Halted error. Is there something I need to disable before I can get VMware to play nicely with FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:30:49PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Does 6.2 still have that time- and ACPI issue in ESX3? No. - disable ACPI in the VM This is not necessary with ESX 3 and FreeBSD 6.2 at least. - kernel frequency at 100 hz This is recommended, I'm not sure if it's really necessary. There is one more setting on the ESX side that helps with timing problems (FreeBSD or Linux guests): change Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod from 400 to 100. With timing problems I mean the guests system clock running too fast/slow here. I had this problem with RHEL4 guests, this setting fixed it for me. - the vmxnet-driver (even the one from workstation 6) crashes freebsd, but IIRC this driver can be replaced with e1000 in esx3. I've never bothered with vmxnet, I use le(4) on i386 guests and em(4) on amd64 guests. The only kernel module I found helpful is vmmemctl.ko. The good news is that VMware releases VMware Tools as open source, I hope this will improve the support for FreeBSD guests. http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
The good news is that VMware releases VMware Tools as open source, I hope this will improve the support for FreeBSD guests. http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Indeed this is good news. Thnx. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
Hi, Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I have gotten it to work fine on VMWare Workstation, however when trying to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow an install. Thanks, Bret J. Esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Immense Networks, L.L.C. http://www.immense.net http://www.immense.net Ofc: (225) 754-9005 Cell: (504) 301-7413 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
On 2007-09-13 11:23, Bret J. Esquivel wrote: Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I have gotten it to work fine on VMWare Workstation, however when trying to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow an install. I've got FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE running on ESX 3.0.2. The SCSI controller shown to FreeBSD on my setup is 'LSI Logic'. HTH -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
From: Mak Kolybabi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 13, 2007 11:53:52 AM CDT To: Bret J. Esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x On 2007-09-13 11:23, Bret J. Esquivel wrote: Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I have gotten it to work fine on VMWare Workstation, however when trying to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow an install. I've got FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE running on ESX 3.0.2. The SCSI controller shown to FreeBSD on my setup is 'LSI Logic'. HTH Can you outline the hardware you are using that is successful in running FreeBSD 6.2 Thanks Troy Kocher _ Scanned by IBM Email Security Management Services powered by MessageLabs. _ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
On 2007-09-13 13:41, Troy Kocher wrote: On 2007-09-13 11:23, Bret J. Esquivel wrote: Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I have gotten it to work fine on VMWare Workstation, however when trying to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow an install. I've got FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE running on ESX 3.0.2. The SCSI controller shown to FreeBSD on my setup is 'LSI Logic'. HTH Can you outline the hardware you are using that is successful in running FreeBSD 6.2 Here's all the information I have. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 3 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz stepping: 4 cpu MHz : 2800.244 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm lm bogomips: 5583.66 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3590 (rev 0c) 00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3591 (rev 0c) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3595 (rev 0c) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3597 (rev 0c) 00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3598 (rev 0c) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3599 (rev 0c) 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 359b (rev 0c) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB USB (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB USB (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB USB2 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev c2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0329 (rev 09) 02:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 032a (rev 09) 03:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8254NXX Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 03:03.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8254NXX Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8254NXX Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 04:04.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8254NXX Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11) 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11) 07:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0330 (rev 07) 07:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0332 (rev 07) 08:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec ServeRAID Controller (rev 07) 09:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8254NXX Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 09:01.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8254NXX Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
Yes, we have it running, on 3.0.2, but I remember it taking a bit of fiddling, and can't remember the details. I'll see if I can go back and take a look at my notes on how that was done. On 9/13/07, Bret J. Esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I have gotten it to work fine on VMWare Workstation, however when trying to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow an install. Thanks, Bret J. Esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Immense Networks, L.L.C. http://www.immense.net http://www.immense.net Ofc: (225) 754-9005 Cell: (504) 301-7413 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
Yes, we have it running, on 3.0.2, but I remember it taking a bit of fiddling, and can't remember the details. Does 6.2 still have that time- and ACPI issue in ESX3? I've got it running in ESX2.5, but it indeed needed some (or much) fiddling :-) - disable ACPI in the VM - kernel frequency at 100 hz - the vmxnet-driver (even the one from workstation 6) crashes freebsd, but IIRC this driver can be replaced with e1000 in esx3. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:23:49AM -0500, Bret J. Esquivel wrote: Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I Yes, I have successfully installed FreeBSD i386 and amd64 on ESX 3.x. The only problem I know of is that SMP only works with FreeBSD/amd64. to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow an install. When creating a new virtual machine I always choose Other or Other(64-bit) as guest OS. The virtual SCSI Controller is LSI Logic, FreeBSD is version 6.x. Once the virtual system is running, I install the VMware Tools from VMware Server 1.x. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Unless the two machines have identical CPUs with identical capabilities, this will likely end in failure. Operating systems aren't happy having their CPUs switch capabilities or instruction sets between one cycle and the next. I hadn't considered that. I assumed VMware virtualised the CPU, so that hot-swapping would be possible without a panic. You mean it allows direct access to the CPU? builder# dmesg | head | grep CPU: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz (2008.36-MHz 686-c So it does. Didn't notice that. Oh well, I can just start the VM on the slower machine. :) Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE
Hi all. Has anyone tried running VMware Player 2 for Linux under the FreeBSD Linux ABI? I'll give it a go myself, of course, but I'm interested in others' experiences. My RELENG_6_2 kernel/world build server works perfectly under the WinXP version of Player 2. I'm doing this because it'd be nice if I could suspend the VM, copy it to USB stick, transfer it to BSD and start it again, so I could use the Windows box for playing a game or watching a movie while the make runs. [I can't do that with the VM running. I find WinXP tends to panic if I try to run more than one application at once. Understandable really, since it only has 1GB RAM to play with.] I've installed the vmware3 port on my i386 6.2-RELEASE-p7 laptop, but of course that won't run Player 2 machines. Any thoughts? I don't know if anyone's interested to play with this VM, but if you are let me know and I'll put it on my website. Or a Torrent tracker maybe. It's not big, less than 400MB when compressed with 7-zip. A prepackaged USB stick sized kernel/world build server? Would that be useful to anyone apart from me? BTW the disk is only a 2000MB growable VMDK, so you can't use it for a distfiles repository or building ports. TiA, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE
Adam J Richardson wrote: I'm doing this because it'd be nice if I could suspend the VM, copy it to USB stick, transfer it to BSD and start it again, so I could use the Windows box for playing a game or watching a movie while the make runs. Unless the two machines have identical CPUs with identical capabilities, this will likely end in failure. Operating systems aren't happy having their CPUs switch capabilities or instruction sets between one cycle and the next. Likewise, I've noticed that different CPU speeds tend to screw with the VM system clock, especially amongst speedstep CPUs. Shutting down, moving, and restarting the VM works fine though, from my experience. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if_bridge and VMware....
I'm in the process of doing something that is possibly a bit out of the ordinary with VMware. I have two stand alone PCs connected to a catalyst 2900 doing 802.1q trunking. I can configure the VLAN interfaces on the stand alone PCs, assign IP addresses, and communicate happily. I then add a PC running VMware's free software offering, again set up the ethernet for 802.1q, and load FreeBSD in to a VM. Like the stand alone PCs, I can configure the vlan interface, attach it to the hardware interface (lnc0), configure vlan interfaces, assign IPs, and life goes happily on. However, what I want to do is add another VM to the network, which does not support 802.1q natively, so thought I could create a host only network, add the network to the FreeBSD machine and the new VM, and then bridge the VLAN interface to the new network's hardware interface (lnc1). To test connectivity, I initally assigned an IP to lnc1 of the FreeBSD system, and an IP to the new VM's ethernet interface. The two systems communicated fine, so far, so good. I then rebooted both boxes, configured the vlan100 interface with: ifconfig vlan100 create vlan 100 vlandev lnc0 ifconfig vlan100 up I then changed the mtu of lnc1 to match vlan100, and brought it up: ifconfig lnc1 mtu 1496 ifconfig lnc1 up I then created the bridge, and attached the interfaces: ifconfig bridge0 create ifconfig bridge0 addm vlan100 addm lnc1 ifconfig bridge0 inet 1.1.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up The stand alone hosts are 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2. The other VM is 1.1.1.20. At this point, the FreeBSD system can not ping either the stand alone boxen, nor the other VM. In playing with it, if I assign an IP address to vlan100, I can reach the stand alone boxes, but not the other VM. Running trafshow, I see broadcast ARP requests on bridge0, vlan100, and lnc1, but no responses. Any thoughts about what I can look at, or what additional information would be handy? Quick ASCII art to help the discussion +---++ | || 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 | Linux Host/VMWare | | vlan100 via lnc0 (MTU 1492) FreeBSD 6.2 VM | bridge0 1.1.1.10 | lnc1 (MTU 1492) | | Test Client VM 1.1.1.20 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware
Qemu a try. If I recall correctly, I tried Qemu in the past and the performance was very poor compared to something like VMWare. Perhaps things changed. yes it is slower, but i am using it because i need windows just to access and export ms access databases. not often, speed doesn't matter that much ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware
El día Monday, August 13, 2007 a las 01:42:04AM -0400, Maxim Khitrov escribió: What is the performance like and have you tried using VMGL for 3D acceleration? Right now I'm actually in the process of installing FreeBSD 7.0 on my laptop just to play around with it. I might give Qemu a try. If I recall correctly, I tried Qemu in the past and the performance was very poor compared to something like VMWare. Perhaps things changed. I don't need 3D stuff, I'm not playing at all and I'm not a designer or constructor. I only use XP for some Winword stuff (when there is no other way in my business) or to look at web pages with IE when the pages are not working with Konqueror or Firefox. Qemu together with the kernel module are fast enough for that, no problems. matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ OCLC PICA GmbH, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christine Magin-Weeger, Norbert Weinberger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Oberhaching, HRB Muenchen: 113261 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware
El día Tuesday, August 07, 2007 a las 12:09:43PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov escribió: ... I'm still waiting for the day when I can run FreeBSD as my main desktop OS, and have a virtual machine with Win XP and 3D acceleration for gaming. Don't like dual-boot setups, but I don't see any progress being made for the VM solution. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2R and KDE3.5 on my laptop as my main desktop OS and have a virtual machine Qemu with WinXP if I'm forced to use some M$ stuff; works quite nice (for years now), for what you are waiting exactly? matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ OCLC PICA GmbH, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christine Magin-Weeger, Norbert Weinberger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Oberhaching, HRB Muenchen: 113261 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware
On 8/13/07, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Tuesday, August 07, 2007 a las 12:09:43PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov escribió: ... I'm still waiting for the day when I can run FreeBSD as my main desktop OS, and have a virtual machine with Win XP and 3D acceleration for gaming. Don't like dual-boot setups, but I don't see any progress being made for the VM solution. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2R and KDE3.5 on my laptop as my main desktop OS and have a virtual machine Qemu with WinXP if I'm forced to use some M$ stuff; works quite nice (for years now), for what you are waiting exactly? What is the performance like and have you tried using VMGL for 3D acceleration? Right now I'm actually in the process of installing FreeBSD 7.0 on my laptop just to play around with it. I might give Qemu a try. If I recall correctly, I tried Qemu in the past and the performance was very poor compared to something like VMWare. Perhaps things changed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD as host OS for VMware
Hi, Many of us would like to see FreeBSD as host OS for VMware. If there would be enough of us to push onto VMware company, maybe someday this could actualy happen. Check out (and give your vote) here: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=10322 -- Kind regards, Marko Kobal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware
On 8/7/07, Marko Kobal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Many of us would like to see FreeBSD as host OS for VMware. If there would be enough of us to push onto VMware company, maybe someday this could actualy happen. Check out (and give your vote) here: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=10322 Sadly I think that a lot of the VM products are ignoring FreeBSD. I don't think VMWare is at all interested in supporting this OS. There is a similar thread over on Parallels forums. People keep asking and keep getting ignored. I have no idea why. I'm still waiting for the day when I can run FreeBSD as my main desktop OS, and have a virtual machine with Win XP and 3D acceleration for gaming. Don't like dual-boot setups, but I don't see any progress being made for the VM solution. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resizing VMware Virtual Drive
Hello, I am running a couple of instances of FreeBSD as guests on a VMware Server. On some of these images, I would like to resize the mount points to accommodate future growth. Has anyone found a simple process for resizing the mount points when they resize the virtual drives that FreeBSD sits on in a VMware host? Thanks, Tony K. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Resizing VMware Virtual Drive
Check this out.. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/newbies/2003-12/0045.html I hope it helps Troy http://dominor.com On 7/31/07, Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running a couple of instances of FreeBSD as guests on a VMware Server. On some of these images, I would like to resize the mount points to accommodate future growth. Has anyone found a simple process for resizing the mount points when they resize the virtual drives that FreeBSD sits on in a VMware host? Thanks, Tony K. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Resizing VMware Virtual Drive
Actually I think [1]http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-04/m sg01340.html that I found on the bottom of that page will do the trick. Thanks for the tip. At 06:50 PM 7/31/2007, Hakan K wrote: Check this out.. [2]http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/newbies/2003-12/ 0045.html I hope it helps Troy [3]http://dominor.com On 7/31/07, Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running a couple of instances of FreeBSD as guests on a VMware Server. On some of these images, I would like to resize the mount points to accommodate future growth. Has anyone found a simple process for resizing the mount points when they resize the virtual drives that FreeBSD sits on in a VMware host? Thanks, Tony K. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list [6]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [7] [EMAIL PROTECTED] References 1. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-04/msg01340.html 2. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/newbies/2003-12/0045.html 3. http://dominor.com/ 4. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 6. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 7. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Resizing VMware Virtual Drive
Tony, I knew you were going to find the related posting which answers your question from that page :) Thanks Troy http://dominor.net On 7/31/07, Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I think http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-04/msg01340.htmlthat I found on the bottom of that page will do the trick. Thanks for the tip. At 06:50 PM 7/31/2007, Hakan K wrote: Check this out.. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/newbies/2003-12/0045.html I hope it helps Troy http://dominor.com On 7/31/07, *Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running a couple of instances of FreeBSD as guests on a VMware Server. On some of these images, I would like to resize the mount points to accommodate future growth. Has anyone found a simple process for resizing the mount points when they resize the virtual drives that FreeBSD sits on in a VMware host? Thanks, Tony K. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMWare Guest Operations on FreeBSD? Anyone got this to work?
Hello guys, I'm wondering if anyone can help me out on something. I'm trying to script some VMWare processes for a bunch of VM's, and it seems like FreeBSD may be a special case here. I've been told by some VMWare techs that guest operations are not supported on FreeBSD at this time. These guest operations usually run in my script on my host machine, to the guest VM via the vmware-guestd daemon on the guest OS. It it perfectly possible to install this daemon and keep it running. However, whenever I try to run any operation from my script, such as VMRunProgramInGuest, or VMLoginInGuest, I get the error message: Authentication failure or insufficient permissions in guest operating system So, my obvious question to guys is 1) Have you ever seen these types of guest operations run on a FreeBSD guest VM in VMWare, and 2) if so, do you know how they got this working? =) I went the extra mile here and tried the Linux emulation capabilities, and then installed the vmware-guestd daemon by hand, but amazingly I still get the same exact error when doing this. (The steps that I took for manual installation, if anyone is curious, are *roughly* summed up on this page for OpenBSDwhen running the normal vmware-config.pl script for Linux on FreeBSD, that script bails when it can't find lsmod. Anyway, link: http://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=HowTo_install_VMWare_tools=)these get Linux emulation gets vmware-guestd running just fine, but like I said, same error.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem
Howdy, I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an existing 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 system, as the regular mouse driver doesn’t appear to work at all, unless some settings are amiss. I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/out of the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes. Has anyone experienced similar problems and/ or know of a fix for this? Thanks! -- Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem
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Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 system, as the regular mouse
driver doesn’t appear to work at all, unless some settings are amiss.
I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/out of
the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes.
you do have the vmware client tools installed nad running in the VM, right?
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manual root filesystems specification under VMware
I'm trying to move a FreeBSD 6.1 virtual machine from VMware server to VMware ESX Server. The original VM used a virtual IDE controller for the disks, and apparently VMware ESX server doesn't support this. The VMware converter applications translates the virtual disk files to use the Virtual SCSI controller under VMware ESX Server. However, I then get dumped at the Manual Root filesystem specification prompt, where I should be able to just type ufs:da0s1a and off I go. But what happens is that the system is hung right at that point and doesn't accept keyboard input. If I boot FreeBSD into safe mode I can make an entry at the prompt. But da0 is not available. If I type ? I see that all there is is acd0 and fd0. But the scsi device must be there because the system is booted from it. Anyone see how I can straighten this out? Once I get the root filesystem mounted I should be able to edit fstab and go. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: manual root filesystems specification under VMware
On Monday 19 March 2007 12:21, Jeff Dickens wrote: I'm trying to move a FreeBSD 6.1 virtual machine from VMware server to VMware ESX Server. The original VM used a virtual IDE controller for the disks, and apparently VMware ESX server doesn't support this. The VMware converter applications translates the virtual disk files to use the Virtual SCSI controller under VMware ESX Server. However, I then get dumped at the Manual Root filesystem specification prompt, where I should be able to just type ufs:da0s1a and off I go. But what happens is that the system is hung right at that point and doesn't accept keyboard input. If I boot FreeBSD into safe mode I can make an entry at the prompt. But da0 is not available. If I type ? I see that all there is is acd0 and fd0. But the scsi device must be there because the system is booted from it. Anyone see how I can straighten this out? Once I get the root filesystem mounted I should be able to edit fstab and go. Update the VM to 6.2 or -STABLE before you migrate it, and be sure you have mpt(4) in the kernel. The mpt(4) in FreeBSD 6.1 doesn't work under ESX server (actually it's the virtual hardware that acts broken), but a more recent mpt will work fine. See this PR and/or the commit history for mpt(4) for more details: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/84040 I haven't done any migrations, but I have successfully run FreeBSD VM's installed from scratch under ESX 3.0 and 3.0.1. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:17:21 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote Robert, You have device driver conflicts with the hardware. Most likely it is the ata driver and the rocket raid card. The rocket raids are nice cards but I have had them blow up too. In my case I simply moved the rocket raid card to a different system where it was rock solid, and put in a promise card that was blowing up in yet a third system. I have a whole collection of hardware to play with. Unfortunately that is what happens when you work with operating systems that wern't preloaded on the hardware you bought. Ted, I would like to do so, but the RAID-controller is on the motherboard. (That was the main reason for choosing this mobo, since everything I need (and obviously something more) is already on-board.) All I could do was do disable SATA is in BIOS. Is there a way to control the ressources to avoid the conflict? Robert Ted - Original Message - From: Robert Eckardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware? Hi, for some time I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6 running on my server as a host for VMware and several other functions. I'm using a 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 on an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS mobo w/ USB, VGA, 2xGbit/s, 2xPATA channels etc. on board. I used to run FBSD-5.2.1 with vmware3 on an Epox mobo w/ a 2GHz Celeron without problems. After changing HW (mobo, CPU, HDD) and OS (FBSD6.0) I found the system to freeze upon accessing an USB device when vmware was running. So my first investigations led to its driver, but in some cases heavy disk I/O was sufficient to cause a freeze. Since the situation got worse with FreeBSD 6.2 I started to work on it more systematically and found the following (actually I was on the verge to switch to Linux CentOS 4.4 or OpenSUSE 10.2 with VMware Server running nicely, but the HD and network performance were disappointing): 1)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ disabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, but no USB devices. 2)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: system freezes with network connections breaking, endless messages ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SET_MULTI taskq. ad2: FAILURE [or TIMEOUT] - WRITE:DMA timed out [or retrying] LBA= g_vs_done():ad2s1e[WRITE(offset=, length=)]error = 5 typing reboot will finally reboot the system after several hours, nothing in the logs though. 3)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using either PCI-VGA *or* on-board VGA, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, also when accessing the USB device. 4)**ACPI on, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using on-board VGA, vmware3 started: system freezes with messages above. So, what's the relation between the scenarios? Where can I tweak the system to get it stable? Since I spend already several man-days on getting VMware running on my machine, I would like to help further debugging by making additional tests, but I don't know where to start. I can live without ACPI (for the time being) -- the old system consumes 125W while the Pentium M machine stays at 42W with ACPI taking about another 8W in idle-state. For me it seems essential why enabling/disabling USB in the BIOS or adding an additional PCI-VGA card stabilizes the system and why the unstable system behaves the same way like with enabling ACPI. I put some boot_verbose-logs on http://www.robert-eckardt.de/ghost/ Regards, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?
Hi, for some time I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6 running on my server as a host for VMware and several other functions. I'm using a 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 on an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS mobo w/ USB, VGA, 2xGbit/s, 2xPATA channels etc. on board. I used to run FBSD-5.2.1 with vmware3 on an Epox mobo w/ a 2GHz Celeron without problems. After changing HW (mobo, CPU, HDD) and OS (FBSD6.0) I found the system to freeze upon accessing an USB device when vmware was running. So my first investigations led to its driver, but in some cases heavy disk I/O was sufficient to cause a freeze. Since the situation got worse with FreeBSD 6.2 I started to work on it more systematically and found the following (actually I was on the verge to switch to Linux CentOS 4.4 or OpenSUSE 10.2 with VMware Server running nicely, but the HD and network performance were disappointing): 1)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ disabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, but no USB devices. 2)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: system freezes with network connections breaking, endless messages ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SET_MULTI taskq. ad2: FAILURE [or TIMEOUT] - WRITE:DMA timed out [or retrying] LBA= g_vs_done():ad2s1e[WRITE(offset=, length=)]error = 5 typing reboot will finally reboot the system after several hours, nothing in the logs though. 3)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using either PCI-VGA *or* on-board VGA, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, also when accessing the USB device. 4)**ACPI on, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using on-board VGA, vmware3 started: system freezes with messages above. So, what's the relation between the scenarios? Where can I tweak the system to get it stable? Since I spend already several man-days on getting VMware running on my machine, I would like to help further debugging by making additional tests, but I don't know where to start. I can live without ACPI (for the time being) -- the old system consumes 125W while the Pentium M machine stays at 42W with ACPI taking about another 8W in idle-state. For me it seems essential why enabling/disabling USB in the BIOS or adding an additional PCI-VGA card stabilizes the system and why the unstable system behaves the same way like with enabling ACPI. I put some boot_verbose-logs on http://www.robert-eckardt.de/ghost/ Regards, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?
Robert, You have device driver conflicts with the hardware. Most likely it is the ata driver and the rocket raid card. The rocket raids are nice cards but I have had them blow up too. In my case I simply moved the rocket raid card to a different system where it was rock solid, and put in a promise card that was blowing up in yet a third system. I have a whole collection of hardware to play with. Unfortunately that is what happens when you work with operating systems that wern't preloaded on the hardware you bought. Ted - Original Message - From: Robert Eckardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware? Hi, for some time I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6 running on my server as a host for VMware and several other functions. I'm using a 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 on an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS mobo w/ USB, VGA, 2xGbit/s, 2xPATA channels etc. on board. I used to run FBSD-5.2.1 with vmware3 on an Epox mobo w/ a 2GHz Celeron without problems. After changing HW (mobo, CPU, HDD) and OS (FBSD6.0) I found the system to freeze upon accessing an USB device when vmware was running. So my first investigations led to its driver, but in some cases heavy disk I/O was sufficient to cause a freeze. Since the situation got worse with FreeBSD 6.2 I started to work on it more systematically and found the following (actually I was on the verge to switch to Linux CentOS 4.4 or OpenSUSE 10.2 with VMware Server running nicely, but the HD and network performance were disappointing): 1)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ disabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, but no USB devices. 2)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: system freezes with network connections breaking, endless messages ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SET_MULTI taskq. ad2: FAILURE [or TIMEOUT] - WRITE:DMA timed out [or retrying] LBA= g_vs_done():ad2s1e[WRITE(offset=, length=)]error = 5 typing reboot will finally reboot the system after several hours, nothing in the logs though. 3)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using either PCI-VGA *or* on-board VGA, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, also when accessing the USB device. 4)**ACPI on, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using on-board VGA, vmware3 started: system freezes with messages above. So, what's the relation between the scenarios? Where can I tweak the system to get it stable? Since I spend already several man-days on getting VMware running on my machine, I would like to help further debugging by making additional tests, but I don't know where to start. I can live without ACPI (for the time being) -- the old system consumes 125W while the Pentium M machine stays at 42W with ACPI taking about another 8W in idle-state. For me it seems essential why enabling/disabling USB in the BIOS or adding an additional PCI-VGA card stabilizes the system and why the unstable system behaves the same way like with enabling ACPI. I put some boot_verbose-logs on http://www.robert-eckardt.de/ghost/ Regards, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware Questions
John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 20:50, Martin McCormick wrote: If one has a FreeBSD system that has 1 gigabyte of RAM and a 1-GHZ processor, would it be possible to run a couple of vmware instances of FreeBSD? I want to set up a DHCP server on each virtual machine and configure one to be optimized for DHCP failover and dynamic leases while the other is dedicated to static bootp service. It would be much easier for the 2 instances of dhcpd to run in separate machines, so to speak, since they normally use the same named files for logging and configuration. What sort of a performance hit does one usually see on a virtual machine? Depends a lot on the virtual machine. VMware Server runs VM's pretty efficiently, but there is a moderate hit. ESX server has almost n performance penalty. When we run dhcpd on a normal FreeBSD system of the type described above, the system is normally loaded around 0.05 or so so it isn't having to work too hard. Thanks for any help as to what vmware port is best. The platform is FreeBSD and the 2 virtual machines will also be FreeBSD if that makes any difference. Modern versions of VMware don't run under FreeBSD. If you really want VMware then install a supported Linux distro and run VMware server. (Or go out and buy ESX or GSX server or one of the Workstation products). FreeBSD 6.2 works great as a guest under most VMware products. There will be no X windows involved, just hopefully 2 DHCP servers running as if they were on two separate boxes. Any information to point me in the right direction or reasons why this is not a good idea are appreciated. For what you're talking about, jails make a lot more sense than virtualization or emulation. If you really want to run virtual machines under FreeBSD, take a look at qemu. qemu (even with the kqemu_kmod port (highly recommended) definitely has a noticeable performance impact, but DHCP is so lightweight that it probably won't matter. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the goal is just to run FreeBSD instances inside your virutal machines vmware, qemu, xen etc are all not needed. Use jails instead which would be much faster. -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware Questions
John Nielsen, referring to running multiple DHCPD's, writes: For what you're talking about, jails make a lot more sense than virtualization or emulation. Thank you! That is exactly the kind of input I was looking for. As soon as I read yours and Frank Staals' mention of jails, it clicked. A true jail will have a little version of as much of the FreeBSD world as dhcpd needs to run. This should be much easier on resources and more predictable as to results. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware Questions
A rule of thumb is to configure as much service as you need (in this case, dhcpd), with as little overhead as you can get away with (a simple jail vs. a full-blown VM). SC On 2/22/07, Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Nielsen, referring to running multiple DHCPD's, writes: For what you're talking about, jails make a lot more sense than virtualization or emulation. Thank you! That is exactly the kind of input I was looking for. As soon as I read yours and Frank Staals' mention of jails, it clicked. A true jail will have a little version of as much of the FreeBSD world as dhcpd needs to run. This should be much easier on resources and more predictable as to results. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vmware Questions
If one has a FreeBSD system that has 1 gigabyte of RAM and a 1-GHZ processor, would it be possible to run a couple of vmware instances of FreeBSD? I want to set up a DHCP server on each virtual machine and configure one to be optimized for DHCP failover and dynamic leases while the other is dedicated to static bootp service. It would be much easier for the 2 instances of dhcpd to run in separate machines, so to speak, since they normally use the same named files for logging and configuration. What sort of a performance hit does one usually see on a virtual machine? When we run dhcpd on a normal FreeBSD system of the type described above, the system is normally loaded around 0.05 or so so it isn't having to work too hard. Thanks for any help as to what vmware port is best. The platform is FreeBSD and the 2 virtual machines will also be FreeBSD if that makes any difference. There will be no X windows involved, just hopefully 2 DHCP servers running as if they were on two separate boxes. Any information to point me in the right direction or reasons why this is not a good idea are appreciated. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware Questions
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 20:50, Martin McCormick wrote: If one has a FreeBSD system that has 1 gigabyte of RAM and a 1-GHZ processor, would it be possible to run a couple of vmware instances of FreeBSD? I want to set up a DHCP server on each virtual machine and configure one to be optimized for DHCP failover and dynamic leases while the other is dedicated to static bootp service. It would be much easier for the 2 instances of dhcpd to run in separate machines, so to speak, since they normally use the same named files for logging and configuration. What sort of a performance hit does one usually see on a virtual machine? Depends a lot on the virtual machine. VMware Server runs VM's pretty efficiently, but there is a moderate hit. ESX server has almost n performance penalty. When we run dhcpd on a normal FreeBSD system of the type described above, the system is normally loaded around 0.05 or so so it isn't having to work too hard. Thanks for any help as to what vmware port is best. The platform is FreeBSD and the 2 virtual machines will also be FreeBSD if that makes any difference. Modern versions of VMware don't run under FreeBSD. If you really want VMware then install a supported Linux distro and run VMware server. (Or go out and buy ESX or GSX server or one of the Workstation products). FreeBSD 6.2 works great as a guest under most VMware products. There will be no X windows involved, just hopefully 2 DHCP servers running as if they were on two separate boxes. Any information to point me in the right direction or reasons why this is not a good idea are appreciated. For what you're talking about, jails make a lot more sense than virtualization or emulation. If you really want to run virtual machines under FreeBSD, take a look at qemu. qemu (even with the kqemu_kmod port (highly recommended) definitely has a noticeable performance impact, but DHCP is so lightweight that it probably won't matter. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:51:31PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: Xen? Xen is an interesting system, but so far as I know, so far, it requires a Linux host - either Red Hat or Suse. Plus, unless you have the new Virtualizing chips from Intel or AMD, you have to make a special version of the OSen you plan to host with kernel modifications.I don't know if there is a version of FreeBSD for Sen yet or not. You can look. jerry On 2/5/07, Daniel Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Bochs, Qemu, and there's another really cool one that I can't think of! :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
I have been running vmware, and it works very well, but if I can find a open source version that works well, I would like to move in that direction. Thanks for the tips guys. Chris Maness (909) 223-9179 http://www.chrismaness.com On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:51:31PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: Xen? Xen is an interesting system, but so far as I know, so far, it requires a Linux host - either Red Hat or Suse. Plus, unless you have the new Virtualizing chips from Intel or AMD, you have to make a special version of the OSen you plan to host with kernel modifications.I don't know if there is a version of FreeBSD for Sen yet or not. You can look. jerry On 2/5/07, Daniel Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Bochs, Qemu, and there's another really cool one that I can't think of! :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:15:47 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:51:31PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: Xen? Xen is an interesting system, but so far as I know, so far, it requires a Linux host - either Red Hat or Suse. I think most Linux distributions have it, and NetBSD (presumably it was prioritized because it's the most portable free OS) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:45:43 -0800 (PST) Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running vmware, and it works very well, but if I can find a open source version that works well, I would like to move in that direction. Thanks for the tips guys. If you do try qemu try building it with kqemu support. qemu does full emulation (which is needed for running an OS for a different platform). kqemu allows some of the guest OS instructions to run directly on the CPU, which is much faster. kqemu is not as mature as qemu, and if it doesn't works for you, you will find qemu much slower than vmware ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
RW wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:45:43 -0800 (PST) Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running vmware, and it works very well, but if I can find a open source version that works well, I would like to move in that direction. Thanks for the tips guys. If you do try qemu try building it with kqemu support. qemu does full emulation (which is needed for running an OS for a different platform). kqemu allows some of the guest OS instructions to run directly on the CPU, which is much faster. kqemu is not as mature as qemu, and if it doesn't works for you, you will find qemu much slower than vmware ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would try VMWare 3 myself (ports tree) however, I'm unclear how to obtain a working key. Any ideas? -- Best regards, Chris Laugh and the world laughs with you. cry and ... you have to blow your nose. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: VMware equivalent?
Chris wrote: RW wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:45:43 -0800 (PST) Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running vmware, and it works very well, but if I can find a open source version that works well, I would like to move in that direction. Thanks for the tips guys. If you do try qemu try building it with kqemu support. qemu does full emulation (which is needed for running an OS for a different platform). kqemu allows some of the guest OS instructions to run directly on the CPU, which is much faster. kqemu is not as mature as qemu, and if it doesn't works for you, you will find qemu much slower than vmware ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would try VMWare 3 myself (ports tree) however, I'm unclear how to obtain a working key. Any ideas? From the README vmware3 installs After a successful port installation you will need to obtain a license key to run VMware (you can use an old one for Linux). If you want to obtain a new key from http://www.vmware.com , you will have to select Linux as the 'server' platform. regards, Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMware equivalent?
Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Chris Maness (909) 223-9179 http://www.chrismaness.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
On 2/6/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Bochs, Qemu, and there's another really cool one that I can't think of! :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:11:19PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Chris Maness (909) 223-9179 http://www.chrismaness.com qemu is the best open-source virtual machine at the moment, bochs is also an alternative. You can find them in the ports collection: emulators/qemu emulators/bochs A short qemu guide: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46399highlight=qemu And some qemu performance tests: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44204highlight=qemu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
Xen? On 2/5/07, Daniel Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Bochs, Qemu, and there's another really cool one that I can't think of! :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
Kurt Buff wrote: Xen? On 2/5/07, Daniel Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Bochs, Qemu, and there's another really cool one that I can't think of! :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks guys. Which one seems to be the best / most refined? -- Chris Maness (909) 223-9179 http://www.chrismaness.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware equivalent?
Kurt Buff wrote: Xen? On 2/5/07, Daniel Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Bochs, Qemu, and there's another really cool one that I can't think of! :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks guys. Which one seems to be the best / most refined? -- Chris Maness (909) 223-9179 http://www.chrismaness.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- your probably thinking of virtualbox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.2 rc2, VMWARE, seeing USB disks
Hi, I installed FreeBSD 6.2 rc2 in a VMWARE VM machine. So far so good. It boots and works fine. Just I cannot see a hard disk that I have connected to a USB port. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 rc2, VMWARE, seeing USB disks
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:40:29 +0100 Christoph P. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I installed FreeBSD 6.2 rc2 in a VMWARE VM machine. So far so good. It boots and works fine. Just I cannot see a hard disk that I have connected to a USB port. What about mounting the hard disk? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgpZ8J6undted.pgp Description: PGP signature
YAVSQ (yet another vmware server question)
well its been discuessed many times that vmware server will likely not work in freebsd any time soon. what about just the management console (linux client)? im considering migrating my dual xeon 2.66/3GB of ram box from windowsXP/VS 2005 to suse/vmware server, and having access to the console application from my freebsd workstation would be a nice convenience. anyone have any thoughts pertaining to the usability of the vmware-console-linux in freebsd? cheers, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMWare
I'm looking to run VMware on my FreeBSD box and note that version 3 is in the ports. I've not tried running Linux software ontop of FreeBSD, but how easy is it to download the free VMware Server software off their site and install so I get the most recent version, and more importantly a free one. Is it just a case of downloading and installing the binary through the usual route or is it a bit more complex ? Robert Davison Senior Project Manager DAVIS LANGDON LLP Everest House Rockingham Drive Linford Wood Milton Keynes MK14 6LY Main Tel: +44 (0) 1908 304 700 Direct Tel: +44 (0) 1908 304 721 Mobile Tel: +44 (0) 7921 584 048 Fax: +44 (0) 870 048 3829 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.davislangdon.com ** PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email, and any files transmitted with it, is strictly confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. If it comes to the attention of any other unauthorised person, no action may be taken on it nor should it be copied or shown to any third party. If you have received this email in error please return it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. ** font face=Arial, Helvetica style=font-size:7.6pt color=blackProject Management | Cost Management | Management Consulting | Legal Support | Specification Consulting | Engineering Services | Property Tax amp; Financebr clear=allnbsp;/fontbrfont face=Arial, Helvetica style=font-size:7pt; color=#808285Davis Langdon LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC306911. A list of members' names is available for inspection at MidCity Place, 71 High Holborn, London WC1V 6QS, the firm's principal place of business and registered office.brbrDavis Langdon LLP is a member firm of Davis Langdon amp; Seah International, with offices in: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain, Poland, Lebanon, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Botswana and the USA/fontbrbrhrfont face=Arial, Helvetica style=font-size:7pt color=blackPRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICEbrbrThis email, and any files transmitted with it, is strictly confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. If it comes to the attention of any other unauthorised person, no action may be taken on it nor should it be copied or shown to any third party. This email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses.brbrIf you have received this email in error please return it to a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]/ahr/font _ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.mci.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare
In response to Davison, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm looking to run VMware on my FreeBSD box and note that version 3 is in the ports. I've not tried running Linux software ontop of FreeBSD, but how easy is it to download the free VMware Server software off their site and install so I get the most recent version, and more importantly a free one. Is it just a case of downloading and installing the binary through the usual route or is it a bit more complex ? What's wrong with your email? I got a bunch of HTML at the end? Anyway, VMWare is a special case. It's got hooks deep into the Linux network drivers that (as far as I know) are a showstopper that prevents VMWare from running under the Linuxulator. If you learn differently, I'd love to hear it, but it's not possible as far as I know. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Davison, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm looking to run VMware on my FreeBSD box and note that version 3 is in the ports. I've not tried running Linux software ontop of FreeBSD, but how easy is it to download the free VMware Server software off their site and install so I get the most recent version, and more importantly a free one. Is it just a case of downloading and installing the binary through the usual route or is it a bit more complex ? What's wrong with your email? I got a bunch of HTML at the end? Anyway, VMWare is a special case. It's got hooks deep into the Linux network drivers that (as far as I know) are a showstopper that prevents VMWare from running under the Linuxulator. If you learn differently, I'd love to hear it, but it's not possible as far as I know. Every time I attend a trade show at which VMware has a booth, I always stop by to ask about any plans for supporting VM hosting on FreeBSD, and to encourage the thought. No one has ever given the slightest indication that this is even remotely likely to happen in the foreseeable future. The usual reason given is that FreeBSD's market share does not come close to justifying the VMware company resources that would be required to support it. Couldn't hurt to keep bugging 'em though. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system
Jeff Dickens wrote: Jeff Dickens wrote: John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware virtual machines (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I might want to make some changes. Has anyone addressed this issue? I haven't read the white paper (yet; thanks for the link), but I've had good results with recent -STABLE VM's running under ESX server 3. Some thoughts: As I do on most of my installs, I trimmed down GENERIC to include just the drivers I use. In this case that was mpt for the disk and le for the network (although I suspect forcing the VM to present e1000 hardware and then using the em driver would work as well if not better). The VMware tools package that comes with ESX server does a poor job of getting itself to run, but it can be made to work without too much difficulty. Don't use the port, run the included install script to install the files, ignore the custom network driver and compile the memory management module from source (included). If using X.org, use the built-in vmware display driver, and copy the vmmouse driver .o file from the VMware tools dist to the appropriate dir under /usr/X11. Even though the included file is for X.org 6.8, it works fine with 6.9/7.0 (X.org 7.1 should include the vmmouse driver.) Run the VMware tools config script from a non-X terminal (and you can ignore the warning about running it remotely if you're using SSH), so it won't mess with your X display (it doesn't do anything not accomplished above). Then run the rc.d script to start the VMware tools. I haven't noticed any timekeeping issues so far. JN ___ What is the advantage of using the e1000 hardware, and is this documented somewhere? I got the vxn network driver working without issues; I just had to edit the .vxn file manually: I'm using the free VMware server V1 rather than the ESX server. ethernet0.virtualDev=vmxnet I've got timekeeping running stably on these. I turn on time sync via vmware tools in the .vmx file: tools.syncTime = TRUE and in the guest file's rc.conf start ntpd with flags -Aqgx so it just syncs once at boot and exits. I'm not using X on these. They're supposed to be clean lean systems to run such things as djbdns and qmail. And they do work well. My main goal is to reduce the background load on the VMware host system so that it isn't spending more time than it has to simulating interrupt controllers for the guests. I'm wondering about the disable ACPI boot option. I suppose I first should figure out how to even roughly measure the effect of any changes I might make. Well, I've done some pseudo-scientific measurement on this. I currently have five freebsd virtual systems running, and one Centos 4 (linux 2.6), This command give some info on the background cpu usage: (The host is a Centos 3 system, linux 2.4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps auxww | head -1 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps auxww | grep vmx root 18031 12.7 1.5 175440 39916 ? S Oct09 345:50 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Goose/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18058 12.9 1.4 174772 36916 ? S Oct09 351:01 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Duck/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18072 16.2 5.5 246372 141776 ? S Oct09 440:16 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/BlueJay/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18086 12.9 1.4 174688 38464 ? S Oct09 351:47 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Heron/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18100 9.4 4.1 385712 107348 ? S Oct09 256:25 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Newt/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18139 12.2 2.5 299388 65132 ? S Oct09 330:35 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Centos4/Centos4.vmx -@ root 28930 0.0 0.0 3680 672 pts/3S14:08 0:00 grep vmx [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As one can see the one called Newt is consistently lower in the %CPU column. Curiously enough, this *is* the one I built a custom kernel for. The config file I used is posted below: Besides commenting out devices I wasn't using NFS, etc, I commented out the apic and pctimer devices. Do you think I'm on the right track for reducing interrupt frequency? Also, if I were to want to move this kernel to other FreeBSD systems, how much has to move, the whole /boot/kernel directory? Finally I did have to re-run the vmware-config-tools.pl script after rebuilding
Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system
Jeff Dickens wrote: John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware virtual machines (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I might want to make some changes. Has anyone addressed this issue? I haven't read the white paper (yet; thanks for the link), but I've had good results with recent -STABLE VM's running under ESX server 3. Some thoughts: As I do on most of my installs, I trimmed down GENERIC to include just the drivers I use. In this case that was mpt for the disk and le for the network (although I suspect forcing the VM to present e1000 hardware and then using the em driver would work as well if not better). The VMware tools package that comes with ESX server does a poor job of getting itself to run, but it can be made to work without too much difficulty. Don't use the port, run the included install script to install the files, ignore the custom network driver and compile the memory management module from source (included). If using X.org, use the built-in vmware display driver, and copy the vmmouse driver .o file from the VMware tools dist to the appropriate dir under /usr/X11. Even though the included file is for X.org 6.8, it works fine with 6.9/7.0 (X.org 7.1 should include the vmmouse driver.) Run the VMware tools config script from a non-X terminal (and you can ignore the warning about running it remotely if you're using SSH), so it won't mess with your X display (it doesn't do anything not accomplished above). Then run the rc.d script to start the VMware tools. I haven't noticed any timekeeping issues so far. JN ___ What is the advantage of using the e1000 hardware, and is this documented somewhere? I got the vxn network driver working without issues; I just had to edit the .vxn file manually: I'm using the free VMware server V1 rather than the ESX server. ethernet0.virtualDev=vmxnet I've got timekeeping running stably on these. I turn on time sync via vmware tools in the .vmx file: tools.syncTime = TRUE and in the guest file's rc.conf start ntpd with flags -Aqgx so it just syncs once at boot and exits. I'm not using X on these. They're supposed to be clean lean systems to run such things as djbdns and qmail. And they do work well. My main goal is to reduce the background load on the VMware host system so that it isn't spending more time than it has to simulating interrupt controllers for the guests. I'm wondering about the disable ACPI boot option. I suppose I first should figure out how to even roughly measure the effect of any changes I might make. Well, I've done some pseudo-scientific measurement on this. I currently have five freebsd virtual systems running, and one Centos 4 (linux 2.6), This command give some info on the background cpu usage: (The host is a Centos 3 system, linux 2.4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps auxww | head -1 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps auxww | grep vmx root 18031 12.7 1.5 175440 39916 ? S Oct09 345:50 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Goose/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18058 12.9 1.4 174772 36916 ? S Oct09 351:01 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Duck/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18072 16.2 5.5 246372 141776 ? S Oct09 440:16 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/BlueJay/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18086 12.9 1.4 174688 38464 ? S Oct09 351:47 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Heron/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18100 9.4 4.1 385712 107348 ? S Oct09 256:25 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Newt/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ root 18139 12.2 2.5 299388 65132 ? S Oct09 330:35 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Centos4/Centos4.vmx -@ root 28930 0.0 0.0 3680 672 pts/3S14:08 0:00 grep vmx [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As one can see the one called Newt is consistently lower in the %CPU column. Curiously enough, this *is* the one I built a custom kernel for. The config file I used is posted below: Besides commenting out devices I wasn't using NFS, etc, I commented out the apic and pctimer devices. Do you think I'm on the right track for reducing interrupt frequency? Also, if I were to want to move this kernel to other FreeBSD systems, how much has to move, the whole /boot/kernel directory? Finally I did have to re-run the vmware-config-tools.pl script after rebuilding the kernel. newt# cat
Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system
John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware virtual machines (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I might want to make some changes. Has anyone addressed this issue? I haven't read the white paper (yet; thanks for the link), but I've had good results with recent -STABLE VM's running under ESX server 3. Some thoughts: As I do on most of my installs, I trimmed down GENERIC to include just the drivers I use. In this case that was mpt for the disk and le for the network (although I suspect forcing the VM to present e1000 hardware and then using the em driver would work as well if not better). The VMware tools package that comes with ESX server does a poor job of getting itself to run, but it can be made to work without too much difficulty. Don't use the port, run the included install script to install the files, ignore the custom network driver and compile the memory management module from source (included). If using X.org, use the built-in vmware display driver, and copy the vmmouse driver .o file from the VMware tools dist to the appropriate dir under /usr/X11. Even though the included file is for X.org 6.8, it works fine with 6.9/7.0 (X.org 7.1 should include the vmmouse driver.) Run the VMware tools config script from a non-X terminal (and you can ignore the warning about running it remotely if you're using SSH), so it won't mess with your X display (it doesn't do anything not accomplished above). Then run the rc.d script to start the VMware tools. I haven't noticed any timekeeping issues so far. JN ___ What is the advantage of using the e1000 hardware, and is this documented somewhere? I got the vxn network driver working without issues; I just had to edit the .vxn file manually: I'm using the free VMware server V1 rather than the ESX server. ethernet0.virtualDev=vmxnet I've got timekeeping running stably on these. I turn on time sync via vmware tools in the .vmx file: tools.syncTime = TRUE and in the guest file's rc.conf start ntpd with flags -Aqgx so it just syncs once at boot and exits. I'm not using X on these. They're supposed to be clean lean systems to run such things as djbdns and qmail. And they do work well. My main goal is to reduce the background load on the VMware host system so that it isn't spending more time than it has to simulating interrupt controllers for the guests. I'm wondering about the disable ACPI boot option. I suppose I first should figure out how to even roughly measure the effect of any changes I might make. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:48, Jeff Dickens wrote: John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware virtual machines (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I might want to make some changes. Has anyone addressed this issue? I haven't read the white paper (yet; thanks for the link), but I've had good results with recent -STABLE VM's running under ESX server 3. Some thoughts: As I do on most of my installs, I trimmed down GENERIC to include just the drivers I use. In this case that was mpt for the disk and le for the network (although I suspect forcing the VM to present e1000 hardware and then using the em driver would work as well if not better). The VMware tools package that comes with ESX server does a poor job of getting itself to run, but it can be made to work without too much difficulty. Don't use the port, run the included install script to install the files, ignore the custom network driver and compile the memory management module from source (included). If using X.org, use the built-in vmware display driver, and copy the vmmouse driver .o file from the VMware tools dist to the appropriate dir under /usr/X11. Even though the included file is for X.org 6.8, it works fine with 6.9/7.0 (X.org 7.1 should include the vmmouse driver.) Run the VMware tools config script from a non-X terminal (and you can ignore the warning about running it remotely if you're using SSH), so it won't mess with your X display (it doesn't do anything not accomplished above). Then run the rc.d script to start the VMware tools. I haven't noticed any timekeeping issues so far. JN ___ What is the advantage of using the e1000 hardware, and is this documented somewhere? I got the vxn network driver working without issues; I just had to edit the .vxn file manually: I'm using the free VMware server V1 rather than the ESX server. ethernet0.virtualDev=vmxnet Not documented, just my opinion that the em(4) driver is probably a better performer than le(4), and the former has awareness of media speeds, etc. I actually haven't tried using the vxn network driver yet. My view could be tainted by old experiences with VMware Workstation 3 and the lnc(4) driver, though. I've got timekeeping running stably on these. I turn on time sync via vmware tools in the .vmx file: tools.syncTime = TRUE and in the guest file's rc.conf start ntpd with flags -Aqgx so it just syncs once at boot and exits. I'm not using X on these. They're supposed to be clean lean systems to run such things as djbdns and qmail. And they do work well. My main goal is to reduce the background load on the VMware host system so that it isn't spending more time than it has to simulating interrupt controllers for the guests. I'm wondering about the disable ACPI boot option. I suppose I first should figure out how to even roughly measure the effect of any changes I might make. So far I'm just experimenting with FreeBSD VM's in my spare time. Our only production VM's at the moment are Windows and a Fedora instance or two. It'd be nice if there were a central repository for some of these tips and other info. (Maybe there are threads on VMTN, I haven't really looked). JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system
I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware virtual machines (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I might want to make some changes. Has anyone addressed this issue? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware virtual machines (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I might want to make some changes. Has anyone addressed this issue? I haven't read the white paper (yet; thanks for the link), but I've had good results with recent -STABLE VM's running under ESX server 3. Some thoughts: As I do on most of my installs, I trimmed down GENERIC to include just the drivers I use. In this case that was mpt for the disk and le for the network (although I suspect forcing the VM to present e1000 hardware and then using the em driver would work as well if not better). The VMware tools package that comes with ESX server does a poor job of getting itself to run, but it can be made to work without too much difficulty. Don't use the port, run the included install script to install the files, ignore the custom network driver and compile the memory management module from source (included). If using X.org, use the built-in vmware display driver, and copy the vmmouse driver .o file from the VMware tools dist to the appropriate dir under /usr/X11. Even though the included file is for X.org 6.8, it works fine with 6.9/7.0 (X.org 7.1 should include the vmmouse driver.) Run the VMware tools config script from a non-X terminal (and you can ignore the warning about running it remotely if you're using SSH), so it won't mess with your X display (it doesn't do anything not accomplished above). Then run the rc.d script to start the VMware tools. I haven't noticed any timekeeping issues so far. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:06:54PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. Have you considered Virtual PC from MS? I believe its free. As VMware server ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe as well as any common pitfalls. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. Have you considered Virtual PC from MS? I believe its free. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe as well as any common pitfalls. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
On Monday, September 4, 2006 at 9:00:44 PM, Peter confabulated: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe as well as any common pitfalls. Peter I currently am running VMWare Workstation v5.5.2 on my XP Pro at home with a 3.2Ghz Pentium and 4 Gig of ram. I use it mainly for a test bed. In my current testing of some things for work, I have four FreeBSD v6.1 servers set up. It runs nice with the extra memory. Prior to the memory upgrade, things ran extreamly slow once I brought the second virtual server up. As far as VMWare's Server, it is a free download (at least for now). I did have that loaded once. I found it to be really slow booting an OS over the Internet. I've pretty much given up on it because of the slowness. I like the idea of being able to boot a virtual machine over the Internet and having access to it. To the host, it runs in the background. You use either the installable console version of the client or you can access the host via a web browser. Once the OS is booted, you can disconnect from it and leave it running in the background. Whenever you want to manage the virtual server, you connect in and it's there. I would imagine this will only get better over time. Workstation has come along way since the free version was last offered (3+ years ago I believe). -- This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
Sounds like you want something almost as good as VMware Workstation, but free...thats VMware Server. VMware Player is really for static distribution purposes; doesn't allow you to snapshot or create VMs. I'm using VMware Server for FreeBSD 6.1 on Win XP now...works great!! ke han On Sep 5, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Eric Schuele wrote: On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. Have you considered Virtual PC from MS? I believe its free. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe as well as any common pitfalls. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host
I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in the free VMWare Player on a WinXP host. How can I switch between virtual terminals? Ctrl-Alt-F[n] doesn't work... By the way, is this the right mailing list to place this question? Thank you, Niek Bouman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host
In response to Niek Bouman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in the free VMWare Player on a WinXP host. How can I switch between virtual terminals? Ctrl-Alt-F[n] doesn't work... By the way, is this the right mailing list to place this question? This is more of a VMWare question than a FreeBSD question. But I suspect you'll have to reconfigure VMWare not to intercept CTRL+ALT. I seem to remember a configuration option for this somewhere. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host
Niek Bouman wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in the free VMWare Player on a WinXP host. How can I switch between virtual terminals? Ctrl-Alt-F[n] doesn't work... By the way, is this the right mailing list to place this question? Thank you, Niek Bouman As long as you're not in an X11 session, plain old Alt+Fn works to switch terminals. If you are in X11, I think there's a way to change the key combination to something else. Check with Google. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host
I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in the free VMWare Player on a WinXP host. How can I switch between virtual terminals? Ctrl-Alt-F[n] doesn't work... By the way, is this the right mailing list to place this question? I have found it somewhere with google. One has to press Ctrl-Alt-Space and subsequently (while still holding Ctrl and Alt) the desired F-key. Thanks for the reactions, Niek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{Could Be Spam?} FreeBSD 6.1 network configurarion on VMware workstation
Hi all I have just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on VMware workstation , and am facing a problem configuring the network connection , i havn't tryed many things , when i ping any ip i get no route to host could you PLZ advice !! thanks in advance . Best Regards Eng.Mohammad Al -Jamal Technical Support Hadara Technologies http://www.p-ol.com http://www.palnet.com Tel: +972-2-2403434 Fax: +972-2-2403430 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vmware on freebsd?
Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
--- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. Sorry if I am side tracking but why bother about vmware when qemu can do a much better job? Please feel free to flame me if vmware can do something that qemu cannot since I have never used vmware... regards, Girish Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
--- Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. Sorry if I am side tracking but why bother about vmware when qemu can do a much better job? Please feel free to flame me if vmware can do something that qemu cannot since I have never used vmware... regards, Girish I am not attached to any one product. I would prefer to go the OSS route. What limitations does qemu have? Can you connect to the guest machines remotely? How can you say it is better than vmware if you have never used it? Thanks for any comments you may have. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
El día Tuesday, August 15, 2006 a las 04:27:07AM -0400, Peter escribió: I am not attached to any one product. I would prefer to go the OSS route. What limitations does qemu have? Can you connect to the guest machines remotely? How can you say it is better than vmware if you have never used it? Thanks for any comments you may have. Peter I run Qemu for a long time in my FreeBSD 6.0-REL laptop to fire up, if I need to do, a XP box or to give talks about the installation of a FreeBSD just doing this in a Qemu virtual machine. Of course you can connect from the underlaying host system or from anywhere else, for example with SSH, to the guest system in Qemu, properly routing setup must done of course before. matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:27:07AM -0400, Peter wrote: I am not attached to any one product. I would prefer to go the OSS route. What limitations does qemu have? Can you connect to the guest machines remotely? How can you say it is better than vmware if you have never used it? Thanks for any comments you may have. qemu has -d option which tells to redirect console to vnc. So you can connect remotely via vnc. But I think that QEMU is good for 1 or 2 virtual machines .. no more. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. I may be completelly off the mark here...but I think the VMWare Server is more like XEN rather than Qemu ( which is more VMWare workstation). AFAIK, VMWare does not support FreeBSD as a host (YES as a guest) in their latest versions of the Workstation line. I havent heard of host as for the Server line, but I could be wrong. Have you looked into Xen instead? Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, VMWare does not support FreeBSD as a host (YES as a guest) in their latest versions of the Workstation line. I havent heard of host as for the Server line, but I could be wrong. Quest Yes, Host No. VMServer does support Linux however. The problem is that they have build the server to depend solely on how linux operates. Hard coded commands, specifics about modules (i.e. lsmod, depmod, etc). If they wern't so full of fuzz about the installation, chances are the VMServer would run under linux-emu on BSD. But alas, at the moment BSD lacks the commands that VMServer requires. As far as Linux goes, it runs on just about anything Redhat, SuSe, Slackware, etc. -- Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. Yes. At out office we are running VMWare3 as a host on FreeBSD 6.1 running Windows XP. It runs perfect. During setup I testet other solutions qemu etc. but found that VMWare out-speeds them all. VMWare is very fast, so fast that you almost wont notice its virtual. Someone commented, that its impossible to run VMWare on FreeBSD as a host, but thats wrong. I highly recommend VMWare3 from ports, eventhough its old. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. I may be completelly off the mark here...but I think the VMWare Server is more like XEN rather than Qemu ( which is more VMWare workstation). AFAIK, VMWare does not support FreeBSD as a host (YES as a guest) in their latest versions of the Workstation line. I havent heard of host as for the Server line, but I could be wrong. Have you looked into Xen instead? Beto well I'm trying vmware3 at the moment using 6.1 as host; the port seems to build fine, and the wizard now runs to build a setup. I need to get a key in order to actually run a machine, but I think overall it will eventually run XP. Had to change my linux compatibility etc etc. The difficulty with Xen at present is that it won't run XP/Win2k etc etc which vmware will. Xen will eventually get there now that they've got agreements with M$. The real problem with these emulations is how far they are from the real hardware. USB is still new so I don't expect to get my usb dvbt working even if a virtual XP runs fine. I know the qemu can do some kind of device control under linux, but I suspect it's harder under freeBSD. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:53:39 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone commented, that its impossible to run VMWare on FreeBSD as a host, but thats wrong. Sorry, should have been more precise: - latest versions of VMWare Workstation (4.5 + ) are not supported (and most probably dont work) under FBSD as host. I'll have to try my 4.5 key in version 3 ;).. oh,hang on, mine is for a Windows Vmware Workstation. dont you just *love* it? G Yes, qemu is much slower than VMware. - VM Server isn't supported either. I am not so sure it would be as simple as mapping the linux commands to bsd ones... the fact that it needs the *mod linux commands implies they use linux kernel modules... which I would say are not compatible with BSD. I'd love to be proven wrong :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
- VM Server isn't supported either. I am not so sure it would be as simple as mapping the linux commands to bsd ones... the fact that it needs the *mod linux commands implies they use linux kernel modules... which I would say are not compatible with BSD. I'd love to be proven wrong :) 100% - and it even has its own proprietary Linux modules that the VMServer loads when starting up (virtual nics, hubs / switches, etc). I just thought that linux modules would be able to operate under linux-emu in BSD. Guess I was wrong on that one :-) But yeah, VMWare Workstation is not really something I'd use in production. VMWare Server only Linux / Windows / etc, and then we have the enterprise class ESX Server, which is a OS in itself ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
