Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
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

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

2008-01-09 Thread Bob Finch
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

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

2008-01-08 Thread Bob Finch
… 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

VMware with Graphic hardware support

2007-12-11 Thread Sdävtaker
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-08 Thread Doug Poland
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-08 Thread Doug Poland
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Doyle
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

FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Doyle
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
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

VMware FreeBSD to Physical

2007-11-24 Thread Milosh Djuric
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

Re: VMware FreeBSD to Physical

2007-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
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

Re: VMware FreeBSD to Physical

2007-11-24 Thread Mark D. Foster
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

Re: VMware FreeBSD to Physical

2007-11-24 Thread Mark D. Foster
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

sysinstall segfaults on FreeBSD-7.0-beta3/i386 VMWare

2007-11-21 Thread Renaud Métrich
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

vmware system speeker beeps

2007-11-04 Thread William Evanson
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

Debugging FreeBSD running on VMware

2007-10-13 Thread Akshay Kawale
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

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

2007-10-10 Thread Sam Lawrance
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

Re: BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 VMware Server

2007-10-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 VMware Server

2007-10-02 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-14 Thread Uwe Laverenz
. 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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Boosten
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

FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-13 Thread Bret J. Esquivel
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-13 Thread Mak Kolybabi
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-13 Thread Troy Kocher
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-13 Thread Mak Kolybabi
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Boosten
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Laverenz
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

Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-08-24 Thread Adam J Richardson
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

VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-08-23 Thread Adam J Richardson
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

Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-08-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
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

if_bridge and VMware....

2007-08-21 Thread Brian J. McGovern
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

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
. 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

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
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

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-12 Thread Maxim Khitrov
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

2007-08-07 Thread Marko Kobal
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

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-07 Thread Maxim Khitrov
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

Resizing VMware Virtual Drive

2007-07-31 Thread Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits
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

Re: Resizing VMware Virtual Drive

2007-07-31 Thread Hakan K
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

Re: Resizing VMware Virtual Drive

2007-07-31 Thread Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits
/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

Re: Resizing VMware Virtual Drive

2007-07-31 Thread Hakan K
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

VMWare Guest Operations on FreeBSD? Anyone got this to work?

2007-07-17 Thread Eroberer 4u
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

Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem

2007-07-09 Thread Webster, Andrew
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

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

2007-07-09 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:53:28 -0400 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

manual root filesystems specification under VMware

2007-03-19 Thread Jeff Dickens
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

Re: manual root filesystems specification under VMware

2007-03-19 Thread John Nielsen
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

Re: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?

2007-03-15 Thread Robert Eckardt
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

Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?

2007-03-14 Thread Robert Eckardt
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

Re: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?

2007-03-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
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

Re: vmware Questions

2007-02-22 Thread Frank Staals
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

Re: vmware Questions

2007-02-22 Thread Martin McCormick
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

Re: vmware Questions

2007-02-22 Thread Simon Chang
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

vmware Questions

2007-02-21 Thread Martin McCormick
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

Re: vmware Questions

2007-02-21 Thread John Nielsen
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-06 Thread Chris Maness
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-06 Thread RW
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-06 Thread RW
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-06 Thread Chris
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
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

VMware equivalent?

2007-02-05 Thread Chris Maness
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-05 Thread Daniel Marsh
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-05 Thread Martin Tournoij
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-05 Thread Kurt Buff
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-05 Thread Chris Maness
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

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-05 Thread Matt Donovan
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

6.2 rc2, VMWARE, seeing USB disks

2006-12-31 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
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

Re: 6.2 rc2, VMWARE, seeing USB disks

2006-12-31 Thread Andreas Rudisch
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

YAVSQ (yet another vmware server question)

2006-10-22 Thread Jonathan Horne
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

VMWare

2006-10-13 Thread Davison, Robert
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

Re: VMWare

2006-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
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

Re: VMWare

2006-10-13 Thread Pete Slagle
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

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-12 Thread Jeff Dickens
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

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-11 Thread Jeff Dickens
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

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-04 Thread Jeff Dickens
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

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
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

optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-03 Thread Jeff Dickens
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

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-03 Thread John Nielsen
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

Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-11 Thread Igor Robul
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

requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-04 Thread Peter
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

Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-04 Thread Eric Schuele
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

Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-04 Thread Duane Hill
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

Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-04 Thread ke han
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

FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host

2006-08-28 Thread Niek Bouman
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

Re: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host

2006-08-28 Thread Bill Moran
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

Re: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host

2006-08-28 Thread Micah
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

RE: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host

2006-08-28 Thread Bouman, N.J. \(Niek, Student EE,EL\)
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

{Could Be Spam?} FreeBSD 6.1 network configurarion on VMware workstation

2006-08-27 Thread Mohammad Al - Jamal
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

vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Peter
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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- 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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Peter
--- 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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Igor Robul
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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Chris Knipe
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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Rico Secada
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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Robin Becker
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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Chris Knipe
% - 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

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