FreeBSD on VMware ESXi with PCI Pass Through enabled
Just curious if anyone has any good recommendations of settings for running FreeBSD under VMware ESXi 5.1 with PCI(e) pass through enabled. I have been doing some initial testing with a new motherboard processor and RAM. That I am hoping to be able to run 3 Servers on. The intended virtual machines for the setup. 1.) A FreeBSD system to run Bacula, which will require PCI pass through for an eSATA drive dock so backups volumes can be Rotated. 2.) A FreeBSD system to host my web/email server, no pass through required. 3.) A FreeNAS box host SMB shares and iSCSI, will use a PCI pass through to allow direct access to 4 Hard drives, attached to a separate SATA controller. Current Hardware Information: eSATA Controller for backups: Koutech IO-PESA111 PCI Express SATA II (3.0Gb/s) - uses Silicon Image 3132 Chipset System Board: ASUS F2A85-M PRO FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) CPU: AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) I still need to add an additional controller SATA controller for the FreeNAS VM, but so far testing with a new machine built for the Bacula install has only been consistently able to trigger a complete core dump and crash of the ESXi host machine, sometimes at boot of the VM with PCI pass through, sometimes not until a load has been applied to the external hard drive on the Pass through SATA controller. I have tried the following things to fix this that I have come across while searching for help. Added the following to /boot/loader.conf: hw.pci.enable_msi=0 hw.pci.enable_msix=0 Added the following to the Vmware Virtual Machine Configuration: pciPassthru0.msiEnabled = FALSE -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing
You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to add new disks without a reboot but, as I described below, have not found a way to get the operating system to detect a larger *existing* disk without a reboot. VMWare allows you to resize a disk on the fly. Obviously I'm only interested in the grow the disk scenario :-) I'm beginning to think a reboot is necessary, which is surprising! On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Luke Bakken wrote: Hello everyone - I'm looking for a way to get FreeBSD 8 / 9 to detect that an already existing disk has grown. I have FreeBSD running as a guest within vSphere ESX 5. Here is the output of camcontrol showing how the disks are detected within the OS: [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 pass0: VMware Virtual disk 1.0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command Queueing Enabled In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to find the right command within FreeBSD to force it to detect the new, larger size without a reboot. 'camcontrol rescan all' works great to detect a new drive but doesn't detect a larger disk. Within a Linux distribution like Debian, the following command will detect the larger drive: echo 1 /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device/rescan I apologize if this has been answered in the archives or online but I just haven't been able to get a definitive answer if this is possible, and how. Thanks so much in advance, Luke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Luke Bakken wrote: You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to add new disks without a reboot but, as I described below, have not found a way to get the operating system to detect a larger *existing* disk without a reboot. VMWare allows you to resize a disk on the fly. Obviously I'm only interested in the grow the disk scenario :-) Force a GEOM retaste? # true /dev/ada0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing
On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote: You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to add new disks without a reboot but, as I described below, have not found a way to get the operating system to detect a larger *existing* disk without a reboot. VMWare allows you to resize a disk on the fly. Obviously I'm only interested in the grow the disk scenario :-) I'm beginning to think a reboot is necessary, which is surprising! Live resize (without reboot even) is something being worked on for the future 10.x series. -- Devin On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Luke Bakken wrote: Hello everyone - I'm looking for a way to get FreeBSD 8 / 9 to detect that an already existing disk has grown. I have FreeBSD running as a guest within vSphere ESX 5. Here is the output of camcontrol showing how the disks are detected within the OS: [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 pass0: VMware Virtual disk 1.0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command Queueing Enabled In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to find the right command within FreeBSD to force it to detect the new, larger size without a reboot. 'camcontrol rescan all' works great to detect a new drive but doesn't detect a larger disk. Within a Linux distribution like Debian, the following command will detect the larger drive: echo 1 /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device/rescan I apologize if this has been answered in the archives or online but I just haven't been able to get a definitive answer if this is possible, and how. Thanks so much in advance, Luke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing
On 18 December 2012 15:27, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote: Live resize (without reboot even) is something being worked on for the future 10.x series. Looking forward to this, we can't offer cloud instances with FreeBSD until this happens. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing
Hello everyone - I'm looking for a way to get FreeBSD 8 / 9 to detect that an already existing disk has grown. I have FreeBSD running as a guest within vSphere ESX 5. Here is the output of camcontrol showing how the disks are detected within the OS: [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 pass0: VMware Virtual disk 1.0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command Queueing Enabled In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to find the right command within FreeBSD to force it to detect the new, larger size without a reboot. 'camcontrol rescan all' works great to detect a new drive but doesn't detect a larger disk. Within a Linux distribution like Debian, the following command will detect the larger drive: echo 1 /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device/rescan I apologize if this has been answered in the archives or online but I just haven't been able to get a definitive answer if this is possible, and how. Thanks so much in advance, Luke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing
It can be done but it's not easy and not pretty. You'll have to rewrite the partition scheme to grow *only* the last partition and then use growfs on the last partition to zero the new inodes within its newly defined range. You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. I usually use DruidBSD for this: DruidBSD-1.0b1.iso (a tiny 23.5MB ISO that you can write to thumb disk with dd or burn to cd; either works fine) Boot from it and use the tools like disklabel -e /dev/yourdisk But… be extremely careful and do your mathematics! I know this isn't a complete step-by-step guide, but I wanted to get the answer out there that this is possible and it's a known quantity, but it can be dangerous if you get the math wrong when editing the disklabel positions, for example. If you can get that part right, the rest is easy (growfs). -- Devin On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Luke Bakken wrote: Hello everyone - I'm looking for a way to get FreeBSD 8 / 9 to detect that an already existing disk has grown. I have FreeBSD running as a guest within vSphere ESX 5. Here is the output of camcontrol showing how the disks are detected within the OS: [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 pass0: VMware Virtual disk 1.0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command Queueing Enabled In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to find the right command within FreeBSD to force it to detect the new, larger size without a reboot. 'camcontrol rescan all' works great to detect a new drive but doesn't detect a larger disk. Within a Linux distribution like Debian, the following command will detect the larger drive: echo 1 /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device/rescan I apologize if this has been answered in the archives or online but I just haven't been able to get a definitive answer if this is possible, and how. Thanks so much in advance, Luke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
I could solve the boot problem of the USB key in the older laptop of my wife by inserting into /boot/loader.conf the line kern.cam.scsi_delay=1 (note: set kern.cam.boot_delay did not help) matthias -- Matthias Apitz «...una sola vez, que es cuanto basta si se trata de verdades definitivas.» «...only once, which is enough if it has todo with definite truth.» José Saramago, Historia del Cerca de Lisboa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
I wrote a small howTo for such a migration for others in the same situation. Comments/Impromvements are welcome; Thanks matthias $Id: moveFreeBSDintoVM.txt,v 1.2 2010/09/02 10:55:29 guru Exp $ How to move a complete FreeBSD installation into a VM Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de 1. Preparations in the running FreeBSD system Save the current FreeBSD partition layout to paper, i.e. print: - /etc/fstab - output of 'df -kh' - output of 'bsdlabel ad8s4' (or whatever your disk is) so you later know the sizes you will need in the new VM. Reboot the system to single user mode, run fsck(8) in all file systems and mount them read only, while staying single user. Do dump(8) of all the partitions to some external media you later can use in the VM a) physically and b) could be mounted in FreeBSD. I used an USB disk with an UFS file system on it as /dev/da0s1a: # mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt # dump -0au -f /mnt/usr.dump /usr # dump -0au -f /mnt/var.dump /var # dump -0au -f /mnt/root.dump / Finally shutdown the system. 2. Prepare the VM Attach resources big enough to reflect your real system to the VM. I used: RAM: 2 GByte IDE: 164 GByte (as one file in the host) Make sure that the VM's boot order is: 1st CD/DVD, 2nd disk, so you later can easy decide from where to boot by just attaching or not the CD/DVD to the VM, even if the disk has already a MBR. Copy an ISO image of the so called FreeBSD livefs to the host and attach this as CD/DVD to the VM 3. Partitioning of the disk This part is a bit tricky because the FreeBSD livefs does not really guide through it. Boot from FreeBSD livefs and - define country and keyboard - run standard installation from the menu - fdisk(8) the disk, use entire disk for FreeBSD - let it install FreeBSD's boot manager - partition the slice to the layout of your old system, i.e. to the following result: /dev/ad0s1a1 GByte / /dev/ad0s1b4 GByte swap /dev/ad0s1d2 GByte /var /dev/ad0s1e6 GByte /tmp /dev/ad0s1f(rest 146 GByte)/usr - commit the last chance before scribbling on disk The installer will now do the real fdisk(8) and BSD-label of the partitions. It will newfs(8) the above file system and try to install FreeBSD in it, which is not on the CD/DVD and which is not what we want. Answer all questions as NO to get finally back to the main menu of sysinstall(8) tool. Reboot again into the FreeBSD livefs and go to the fixit repair mode menu, start a shell. The above mentioned file systems are created fine and even the boot manager is fine in place (ofc it would not find anything to boot). The file systems are already polluted which things we don't want (because we later will restore from dumps). Run newfs(8) in all file system devices again: # newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad0s1a # newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad0s1b # newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad0s1d # newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad0s1e # newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad0s1f We now have clean file systems (and boot manager installed). 4. Restore the dumps First restore the old root file system using the booted FreeBSD livefs, mount the new root as /mnt and the USB disk containing the dumps as /usb: # mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt # mkdir /usb # mount -t usf -o ro /dev/da0s1a /usb # cd /mnt # restore rf /usb/root.dump # cd / # umount /mnt One could as well restore the other dumps the same way, but it's better to see if the new root file system already boot fine, because restoring the /usr dump will take many hours (in my case 9 hours for 120 GByte), Reset the VM (no need to worry, nothing is mounted), detach the CD/DVD and reboot the old/new root file system into single user mode. Remount the /root writable and restore the /usr dump: # mount -o rw / # mount -t usf -o ro /dev/da0s1a /mnt # mount /dev/ad0s1f /usr # cd /usr # restore rf /mnt/usr.dump (after 9 hours) # mount /dev/ad0s1d /var # cd /var # restore rf /mnt/var.dump Check and edit the /etc/fstab to reflect the new device names (in my original system the disk was /dev/ad0s8 and not /dev/ad0s1). Make /tmp writable for all users # mount /dev/ad0s1e /tmp # chmod 1777 /tmp The system is now installed and should be boot up fine to normal multi user mode, just reboot normally. 5. Final changes Edit some system files to reflect the new VM environment: /etc/rc.conf: - network interface is now em0, and not wlan0 /boot/loader.conf - sound (still not working) /etc/X11/xorg.conf - recreate the X11 config file the normal way install the vmware-tools for FreeBSD (still pending) 6. Some notes about performance The host is Dell Precision M4400 with Dual Core CPU of 3.09 GHz and runs Windows 7 Professional. It took 9h to restore a dump of /usr which was produced in ~2h. The compared write
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
El día Tuesday, August 31, 2010 a las 03:13:51PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Now I have already again my 'old' root partition booting to single user mode and I'm filling in the 120 GByte dump of the /usr ... The 1st try crashed the Win7 to blue screen over the night :-( The 2nd try was successfull. It took 9 hours to get the dump restored. The system now boots fine, even of course slower than native. I still strougle with some smaller issues: Xorg uses only 1280x720, while the full host display is NVidia support 1920x1200; I can't get sound to work; the sound device is attached to the VM, the kernel loads snd_emu10k1.ko and sound.ko, but no device shows up. Any ideas? matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
El día Monday, August 30, 2010 a las 11:31:13AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias I prepared another USB key which boots fine in my laptop, boots fine in the other laptop native (i.e. without VM-player); but in the VM-player and in an older laptop of my wife it can't mount the root file system on boot; it says: ... Because the USB key was not booting in the VM I've now used a 8.0 livefs ISO to boot from. I used this livefs for the 1st time, I think, and even beeing an experienced FreeBSD user for more than 15 years it is not easy to understand how the livefs should be best use to 1) partition the slice and install boot manager 2) restore dumps from the USB disk I have The livefs brings you into the same menu like any other install CD. I was awaiting a straight forward boot into a multiuser run level and then do the work from there. Ofc you can user the installer and dont install anything (because there is nothing in this moment on the CD), and then jump to the shell. In this case the created file systems are already poluted with some stuff and are mounted together. I found no way to unmount /mnt/ad0s1a (todo newfs again). It always said 'busy'. So I booted a 2nd time the livefs and went right away to the shell... Now I have already again my 'old' root partition booting to single user mode and I'm filling in the 120 GByte dump of the /usr ... The 1st try crashed the Win7 to blue screen over the night :-( matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias I prepared another USB key which boots fine in my laptop, boots fine in the other laptop native (i.e. without VM-player); but in the VM-player and in an older laptop of my wife it can't mount the root file system on boot; it says: ... umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x000 Root mount waiting for; usbus1 aumass0:1:0:-1 Attached to scbus1 uhub_explore:592: illegal enable change, port 1 da0at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Intenso Premium 0.00 Remobeable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s travsfer da0: 7701MB (... byte per sector info) Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a Manual root file system specification... when I specify manually the root as 'ufs:/dev/da0s1a' the same message comes again; looks like some timing problem, or? this is with 8-CURRENT based on CVS of March 2009. Any hints? matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player (was: running FreeBSD on Windows host)
El día Tuesday, August 24, 2010 a las 01:10:00PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: I have produced three dumps: from the /, /var and /usr file system. The man page of restore(8) reads about creating pristine file system, made by newfs(8). Later, in the VM environment, I'd like to have only one big file system... Is it possible to restore the tree dumps into one big file system or do I have to rebuild the same slicing as I now have? You won't have to rebuild the slicing. Just create the relevant directories in your big file system, cd into them and use restore. Will it be a problem having the kernel /boot/* in this case far away from the beginning of the partition? I did some 1st tests with installing FreeBSD into a VM. I grabed some other laptop which runs already Win7 and installed a VMWare-player in it to do some tests. Of course the VMWare-player was not able to boot from a prepared USB key. A workaround was a boot from some ISO image of a boot manger (I used plpbt-5.0.10.zip from http://www.plop.at/) which allows you to choose the USB storage as boot device after 1st stage boot. The system comes up fine from the USB key and I created a 160 GByte slice with the standard procedure like: # fdisk -I /dev/ad0 # fdisk -B /dev/ad0 # bsdlabel -w ad0s1 auto # bsdlabel -B ad0s1 edit the disk label and change partition a from unused to 4.2BSD as partition type: # setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi # bsdlabel -e ad0s1 create the future root-filesystem on it and mount it to /mnt for the installation: # newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad0s1a # mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt install freebsd into /mnt; this assumes that you have the kernel and userland in /usr/src and /usr/obj ready to be installed; # cd /usr/src # make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt The 'make installworld' failed with errors in the Makefiles (...); for example the file /usr/src/lib/libc/uuid/Makefile.inc had a line like this: SRCS+? uuid_compare.c uuid_create.c uuid_create_nil.c uuid_equal.c \ uuid_from_stringc uuid_hash.c uuid_is_nil.c uuid_stream.# \ uuid_to_string.c where it should have: SRCS+= uuid_compare.c uuid_create.c uuid_create_nil.c uuid_equal.c \ uuid_from_string.c uuid_hash.c uuid_is_nil.c uuid_stream.c \ uuid_to_string.c (note the ? singn and the # sign), i.e. the content was broken and some other files were missing in the /usr/src tree of the USB key. I used the same key last year to install from it the system to my netbook EeePC and it worked like it should. Since then the USB key was unused and carried around in the bag of my laptop. Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
On 27/08/2010 10:24 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias I've heard of stories of data 'fading out' from USB flash drives after some period of complete inactivity. Haven't experienced this myself though. Otherwise your procedure looks fine and it shouldn't fail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias I've heard of stories of data 'fading out' from USB flash drives after some period of complete inactivity. Haven't experienced this myself though. Otherwise your procedure looks fine and it shouldn't fail. A dump of the key gives several error messages: # dump -0au -f usb8.dmp /dev/da0s1a DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Aug 27 14:06:04 2010 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/da0s1a to usb8.dmp DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 3980686 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 52.81% done, finished in 0:04 at Fri Aug 27 14:15:35 2010 DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 4992928]: count=8192 read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 4992870]: count=10240 DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 4992896]: count=7168 DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992928]: count=512 DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992870]: count=512 read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992896]: count=512 DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992899]: count=512 DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992931]: count=512 read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992873]: count=512 DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 5032906]: count=10240 read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 5032928]: count=9216 DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 5032946]: count=7168 I will re-create the key or even use another media; matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
On 27/08/2010 3:17 μ.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias I've heard of stories of data 'fading out' from USB flash drives after some period of complete inactivity. Haven't experienced this myself though. Otherwise your procedure looks fine and it shouldn't fail. A dump of the key gives several error messages: # dump -0au -f usb8.dmp /dev/da0s1a DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Aug 27 14:06:04 2010 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/da0s1a to usb8.dmp DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 3980686 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 52.81% done, finished in 0:04 at Fri Aug 27 14:15:35 2010 DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 4992928]: count=8192 read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 4992870]: count=10240 DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 4992896]: count=7168 DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992928]: count=512 DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992870]: count=512 read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992896]: count=512 DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992899]: count=512 DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992931]: count=512 read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [sector 4992873]: count=512 DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 5032906]: count=10240 read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 5032928]: count=9216 DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1a: Input/output error: [block 5032946]: count=7168 I will re-create the key or even use another media; matthias Try recreating, preferably newfs the key first. Don't be surprised if you find out you need a new USB key. This reminds me of a recent incident I had with another key (of a respected brand as well) which failed and disappeared(!) from the bus while I was writing to it, plugged in on my freebsdgr.org server. Not only I had to umount -f, but subsequently seems the whole USB subsystem got 'stuck' and I had to reboot the server for it to work again. As I said, I have not witnessed 'data fading' in USB flash drives, but this the third one I throw away due to total hardware failure... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 04:20:41PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Try recreating, preferably newfs the key first. Don't be surprised if you find out you need a new USB key. newfs(8) did not worked; a format in Win7 lies that it was fine and stops later writing to it after 2 GByte of 8; have to look for another key; thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD and vmware
--On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 21:34:43 +0100 Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries in the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get an error but problem solved? - I can't see the network devices from vmware - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found Any clues? Yes. Use VirtualBox. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD and vmware
Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries in the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get an error but problem solved? - I can't see the network devices from vmware - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found Any clues? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD and vmware
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.orgwrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries in the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get an error but problem solved? I don't use vmware, but you glabel the block devices and they would then be consistent in both. - I can't see the network devices from vmware - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found I imagine the same hardware isn't presented to FreeBSD in the VM. You might need to do something like have two separate xorg.conf. Same with NIC, except you might be able to just have two entries in rc.conf. What does ifconfig says on physical hw and in VM? Any clues? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD and vmware
On 17/03/2010 10:34 μ.μ., Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries in the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get an error but problem solved? Best would probably be to label the devices and use the labels instead of device names. It will work without changes in both bare metal and vmware. (Or maybe use the ufsid labels.) Check this out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html - I can't see the network devices from vmware The emulated network device is probably different than the one you are using. I believe most recent vmware versions emulate an Intel NIC, i.e. em0. Use ifconfig to check and add a line in rc.conf for this - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found This is definitely fixable, make sure you install xf86-video-vmware port and create an xorg.conf by hand if needed (probably not) using the Handbook instructions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD and vmware
On 03/17/10 16:34, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries in the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get an error but problem solved? I think your best solution for this is to use glabel(8) to setup permanent labels on the drives. You can then mount the label in fstab by replacing the device name with the appropriate /dev/label/labelname entry. This will prevent the changes in disk device numbering or naming from causing you any more grief. - I can't see the network devices from vmware Do you mean you can't see a NIC from within FreeBSD on top of VMware? You will have to choose Other (64-bit) for the OS type and/or choose the e1000/Intel1000 device within VMware for the virtual network card. FreeBSD has great support for this card, virtual attempt physical. - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found Try /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware Any clues? Thanks, Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD and vmware
On 17/03/10 21:40, Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/17/10 16:34, Erik Norgaard wrote: - I can't see the network devices from vmware Do you mean you can't see a NIC from within FreeBSD on top of VMware? You will have to choose Other (64-bit) for the OS type and/or choose the e1000/Intel1000 device within VMware for the virtual network card. FreeBSD has great support for this card, virtual attempt physical. I created Other/FreeBSD 64bit OS type. When setting vmware up without NAT I can configure the em0 interface and get direct access, but with NAT I can't see the virtual interfaces vmware create. Thanks for the your advices. BR, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD and vmware
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This is possible, I've run such a setup for a long time. But you don't say which versions of the products you are using. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries in the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get an error but problem solved? As others said, use glabel or UFS labels (tunefs -L). - I can't see the network devices from vmware You can configure both cards (the real and the emulated one) in /etc/rc.conf and the one that's active will be used on boot. - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found You can either use VESA or the VMWare specific driver for the virtual machine. Look into /usr/ports/x11-drivers. You will need to keep two configurations (xorg.conf) - one for the real and one for the emulated video card, and manually switch them. You don't specifically need it but you can also look at /usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi
At 05:44 AM 5/6/2009, Daniels Vanags wrote: We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying to boot, getting error: BTX halted. Please explain, how to start FreeBSD on different hardware. Thanks, Daniel Vanags Information Technology Department IT infrastructure system engineer I'm not sure what exactly you've done from your posting above. I have FreeBSD running in VM's under ESXi. I have moved the FreeBSD VM's from physical server to server without much trouble. The devices presented to the FreeBSD VM are dependent the VM configuration, so I would check there first. You may have selected a different SCSI host adapter in the VM settings for instance. I believe the problem you are experiencing is more to do with your ESXi/VM configuration than FreeBSD. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 13:44 +0300, Daniels Vanags wrote: We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying to boot, getting error: BTX halted. Please explain, how to start FreeBSD on different hardware. Well, assuming that HFUX's RAID, VMWare and Linux doesn't totally shit the bed from the hypervisor CPU type change, the VMs are controllable from the spiffy AJAX/.Net20 VMWare management console. There's plenty of debugging available from there. Presumably all of the virtual hardware presented to the VM will be the same, except the CPU details. ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD on VMware ESXi
We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying to boot, getting error: BTX halted. Please explain, how to start FreeBSD on different hardware. Thanks, Daniel Vanags Information Technology Department IT infrastructure system engineer JSC SMP Bank www.smpbank.lv Phone:+371 67019386 E-mail: daniels.van...@smpbank.lv mailto:daniels.van...@smpbank.lv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD in VMWare box
If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? The boot manager can be whichever you want. If you are installing on a VM, chances are you're not dual-booting it, so yes, Standard Boot Manager would be a 'good' choice. The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This would be contingent on how you have networking set up. Do you have NAT or Bridged only? If NAT, use rc.conf with the inet address of your choice and the netmask for your NAT. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box
Hi, If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? Yes, or choos not to install a boot manager. Both worked with freebsd 6.x and ESX 2.5x Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? The next that's available in your lan. Hth. Regards, Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This would be contingent on how you have networking set up. Do you have NAT or Bridged only? If NAT, use rc.conf with the inet address of your choice and the netmask for your NAT. My PC is connected to Internet using an ADSL modem to connect to an ISP. It uses IP 10.0.0.somevalue, netmask 255.255.255.0, no gateway specified and two DNS server IP addresses which my ISP asked to use. Is this 'NAT' or 'Bridged'. Can I enter values and then what values, for host, domain, IPV4 gateway, Name server, IPV4 address, netmask in the screen presented during FreeBSD install or should i use Cancel in that screen and make changes in system files (and what changes in what system files)? -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This would be contingent on how you have networking set up. Do you have NAT or Bridged only? If NAT, use rc.conf with the inet address of your choice and the netmask for your NAT. My PC is connected to Internet using an ADSL modem to connect to an ISP. It uses IP 10.0.0.somevalue, netmask 255.255.255.0, no gateway specified and two DNS server IP addresses which my ISP asked to use. Is this 'NAT' or 'Bridged'. You'd have to tell me; it's your VM. Check the network settings in the management interface. Can I enter values and then what values, for host, domain, IPV4 gateway, Name server, IPV4 address, netmask in the screen presented during FreeBSD install or should i use Cancel in that screen and make changes in system files (and what changes in what system files)? Either will work. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This would be contingent on how you have networking set up. Do you have NAT or Bridged only? If NAT, use rc.conf with the inet address of your choice and the netmask for your NAT. My PC is connected to Internet using an ADSL modem to connect to an ISP. It uses IP 10.0.0.somevalue, netmask 255.255.255.0, no gateway specified and two DNS server IP addresses which my ISP asked to use. Is this 'NAT' or 'Bridged'. You'd have to tell me; it's your VM. Check the network settings in the management interface. (I previously installed an openSUSE 10.3 VM, and needed not enter any TCP/IP parameter, and could use netwerking afterwards) The default settings of my VMware are (from Edit / Virtual Network Editor) Summary Virt. Network - Summary - Subnet - DHCP VMnet0 (Bridged) - Bridged to an automatically choosen adapter - - VMnet1 (Host-only) - A private nw shared with the host - 192.168.72.0 - Enabled VMnet8 (NAT) - Used to share the host's IP address - 192.168.173.0 - Enabled Automatic Bridging CHECKED: AUtomatically choose an available physical netwerk adapter to bridge to VMnet0 Host Virtual Netwerk Mapping VMnet0 Brigded to an automatically chosen adapter (here I can also select my physical network card) VMnet1 VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 (only choice) VMnet2 (and 3 to 7 and 9): Not bridged (here I can also select my physical network card) VMnet8 VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 (only choice) Host Virtual Adapters Network Adpater Virt.Nw Status VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 VMnet1 Enabled VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 VMnet8 Enabled DHCP Virtual Network Subnet Netmask Description VMnet1 192.168.72.0255.255.255.0 vmnet1 VMnet8 192.168.137.0 255.255.255.0 vmnet8 NAT VMnet host: VMnet8 Gateway IP address : 192.168.137.2 [ grey ] Netmask: 255.255.255.0 [ grey ] Nat Service Service Status: Started Service request: [ empty ] Can I enter values and then what values, for host, domain, IPV4 gateway, Name server, IPV4 address, netmask in the screen presented during FreeBSD install or should i use Cancel in that screen and make changes in system files (and what changes in what system files)? Either will work. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box
At 06:57 AM 11/22/2008, Pieter Donche wrote: If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? You need to be more specific. Are you using ESX server or workstation? As for the boot manager you can use it, or not. Both work. You can have the FreeBSD just use DHCP to get network settings. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ 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
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I'm trying to install the latest FreeBSD boot cd on a VMware Server
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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: 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]
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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]
Re: FreeBSD and VMWare
I have never gotten vmware to run as a program under FreeBSD, i.e. using FreeBSD as the host for other vmware machines. I have tried several times. Technically, VMWare doesn't support it. We have used FreeBSD at our company as a host for some Windows XP based machines running on VMWare 3 from ports. But I am not sure if that is exactly what you mean. It is running just fine. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD and VMWare
I noticed that someone asked questions concerning VMware on FreeBSD which was my first realization that the two even go together. I have the opportunity to advocate FreeBSD as a possible replacement to run that software as a parting shot in the next week prior to finally retiring from that organization. They are a very large windows operation but are putting in some Linux/VMware to reduce the windows server hardware platforms (I already know that this is of dubious value when they could natively migrate and just eliminate the servers, efficiency is not an option in the corporate world paradigms). Before I actually recommend they do this on ~80 servers, I would like to verify that it really can be done to move to a FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE/ VMware environment to support W2K3 and E2K3 on a virtual machine? Has anyone done this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and VMWare
In response to YTResearch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed that someone asked questions concerning VMware on FreeBSD which was my first realization that the two even go together. I have the opportunity to advocate FreeBSD as a possible replacement to run that software as a parting shot in the next week prior to finally retiring from that organization. They are a very large windows operation but are putting in some Linux/VMware to reduce the windows server hardware platforms (I already know that this is of dubious value when they could natively migrate and just eliminate the servers, efficiency is not an option in the corporate world paradigms). Before I actually recommend they do this on ~80 servers, I would like to verify that it really can be done to move to a FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE/ VMware environment to support W2K3 and E2K3 on a virtual machine? Has anyone done this? FreeBSD 6 runs fine _inside_ vmware -- as a virtual machine. I used it daily with almost no trouble (and the small amount of trouble is likely to be unrelated to vmware). I have never gotten vmware to run as a program under FreeBSD, i.e. using FreeBSD as the host for other vmware machines. I have tried several times. Technically, VMWare doesn't support it. -- 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 and vmware?
On 9/21/05, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:23, mgedv online wrote: is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on a logical partition? has anyone successfully setup such a configuration? A. if you want to install FreeBSD using vmware in Windows, the answer is YES B. if you want to install vmware in FreeBSD in order to run other OS, my suggestion is looking back in the mailing list. http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware
Try to parse /boot/beastie.4th Message: 30 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:37:07 -0400 From: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in Safe Mode it works great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting in Safe Mode from the default boot options. That way I can further troubleshoot and find the culpret hopefully. Thanks for any information regarding this issue. Aaron ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd and vmware?
is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on a logical partition? has anyone successfully setup such a configuration? br... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware
I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in Safe Mode it works great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting in Safe Mode from the default boot options. That way I can further troubleshoot and find the culpret hopefully. Thanks for any information regarding this issue. Aaron ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware
Aaron Peterson wrote: I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in Safe Mode it works great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting in Safe Mode from the default boot options. That way I can further troubleshoot and find the culpret hopefully. Thanks for any information regarding this issue. Hi Aaron, what host OS are you using? I dont recall having any problem with 5.4 on VmWare 4.5 Wkstation under WinXP. Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware
On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Aaron Peterson wrote: I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in Safe Mode it works great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting in Safe Mode from the default boot options. That way I can further troubleshoot and find the culpret hopefully. Thanks for any information regarding this issue. On 9/20/05, Tom Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron: You're on the right track. Both FreeBSD and VMWare are marginally aware of each other, though it is possible if you do enough digging to get 5.x virtual machines limping along inside both GSX and ESX. However, expect to see strange behavior in a number of applications, and problems with CPU usage in applications that should be idle, since freebsd's nanosleep() call eats CPU when running under these platforms. You can boot FreeBSD in standard mode by instructing the VMware host to not use ACPI in each config file (in ESX it's usually called vmware.vmx per-config) and adding the following two lines before restarting the instance: acpi.present = false monitor_control.disable_apic = TRUE it's easiest then, once you have an installation working, to use a product like virtualcenter to template and clone the working instance out to other hosts. I am trying to run FreeBSD 5.4 on ESX, since I seem to have left that information out in earlier posts. I really appreciate the information, I wasn't aware of any configuration directives like these for vmware. I am left with a couple other questions that you or someone might be able to help me with. Why does nanosleep() eat CPU when running under these platforms? I was able to get FreeBSD running on a virtual host before hearing your suggestion by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=0 to /boot/loader.conf. I'm sure this does basically the same thing as your suggestion, except in the FreeBSD kernel instead of in the virtual host configuration. I wonder what the pros and cons are of doing one or the other? In your opinion, is it worth running FreeBSD 5.4 on ESX in light of the quirks you've noticed? Thanks, Aaron ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd and vmware?
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:23, mgedv online wrote: is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on a logical partition? has anyone successfully setup such a configuration? A. if you want to install FreeBSD using vmware in Windows, the answer is YES B. if you want to install vmware in FreeBSD in order to run other OS, my suggestion is looking back in the mailing list. -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD as VMware Guest, need some assist on networking to Host
I have read and re-read all the VMware docs about setting up BSD as host, but to no avail, simply can not get networking operational. Using, VMware 5.00.build 13124 FreeBSD 5.3.RELEASE #0 (as Guest) Win XP Pro 5.1.2600 SP2 (as Host) On, Intel Pent II, 264 MHz with 192Mb Symptom, ifconfig reports lnc0 device as UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST) from Guest(BSD) to Host(XP) ( Router) ping reports sendto: Host is down. ftp hangs with Trying 192.168.1.101 from Host(XP) to Guest(BSD) ping actually works!! (to Guest Router it works) ftp reports Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: (possibly BSD secure setting?) Inside VMware - Virtual Network Settings VMnet0(Bridged) Bridged to Linksys Wireless-G PCI VMnet1(Host Only) A private network shared with host VMnet8(NAT) Used to share the host's IP address VMnet0 NO Subnet, NO DHCP VMnet1 Subnet 192.168.32.0, YES DHCP VMnet8 Subnet 192.168.52.0, YES DHCP Automatic Bridge 'NO' Host Virtual Adapters VMnet1 Virtual Net Enabled VMnet8 Virtual Net Enabled VMware tools is loaded, and does appear to start as BSD boots up, however, I am unable to perform any cut/paste functions from Guest to Host. The VMware docs make no mention of altering any settings on the host, hence, I've done no changes within the Win XP Host. (I can see VMnet8 and VMnet1 on the Host(XP) side with ipconfig /all) I searched through the archives and did not see any resolutions. There were a few messages which implied, 'use NAT and it just works'. I have selected NAT as network type. (I've actually tried bridging and 'host only', still nothing). As a side note, and possibly related. I receive this message on the BSD console[IN BOLD] every 5 minutes or so: calcru: runtime went backwards from 24173436 usec to 24173430 usec for pid 444 (vmware-guestid) This is my first post to this forum, though I usually like to figure things out for myself, I've been really struggling with this issue for quite some time. It would be so great to pull data from the BSD envi (shell scripting, perl scripting) as I use it mainly for development. Oh! I should mention that I am not in any way a BSD expert. I prefer it leaps and bounds over Linux, but my real UNIX experience is with AIX. Although I have a considerable amount of time in the NeXTStep world (which I believe to be build on a derivative of BSD's mach kernel). At any rate, if the email gods are not angry with me this message will make it to the forum, and, hopefully, someone who has already conquered this issue can shed some light. By the way, if I've somehow directed this to an incorrect forum, parden me a 1,000 times. Thanks in advance to all! cheers, Harold __ 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 inside VMWare and x.org
I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg from ports (just updated today). I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either way. Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside VMWare? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies 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: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org
On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote: I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg from ports (just updated today). I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either way. Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside VMWare? Change you /etc/X11/xorg.conf to match the relevant parts of this Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device saphfire Monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:37:53 -0500, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. it sounds like these issues are related to your X.org config file. you may want to check out the Subsection Display settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or maybe Xorg.config for xorg don't remember at the moment). I've never tried running X in a vmware machine, but if you are able to get the binary up and running I assume you should be able to change these config options. if this does not work i'd suggest posting the interesting portions of /var/log/XFree86.0.log to the list. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org
Jason Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote: I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg from ports (just updated today). I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either way. Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside VMWare? Change you /etc/X11/xorg.conf to match the relevant parts of this Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device saphfire Monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection AHA! That did it very nicely. I forgot to put in Modes. Thank you very much ... made my day! For the archives ... I'm using the vesa driver ... The vmware driver doesn't seem capable of this. Runs at 1280x1024 very nicely both in a window, and in fullscreen. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies 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: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net
Sorry if I didn't make my question clear. I know my NIC card driver, the problem is when I start up BSD as a guest OS in vmware, it responds that it can't find a route to the network and I was inquiring if there was a different driver needed under vmware bridged-to-network. Thanks for the response. Jim -- In Response to your message - Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:28:34 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. W. Ballantine) From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed as a dual-boot. I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with bsd as the guest OS. My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to the network card. What settings do I need and/or network driver do I need to set??? Generally you can figure out the NIC driver by looking through the boot messages. use dmesg(8) to look at the file of messages.When you find some text looking like it is talking about a NIC, then take the two leter code it is referring to and use it as your driver - in the kernel. On the machine I am currently on it looks like: em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.16 port 0xdf40-0xdf7f mem 0xfeae-0xfeaf irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci1 em0: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A So the driver is 'em' in this case. jerry Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net
I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed as a dual-boot. I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with bsd as the guest OS. My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to the network card. What settings do I need and/or network driver do I need to set??? Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:36:18AM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote: I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed as a dual-boot. I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with bsd as the guest OS. My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to the network card. What settings do I need and/or network driver do I need to set??? I think, there are no special settings. I have network card in 'Bridged' mode and default installation of FreeBSD. Network card has been detected as: lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter port 0x10c0-0x10df irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0 lnc0: PCnet-PCI II address 00:0c:29:e7:5c:66 Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jaroslav Suchanek GRISOFT, s.r.o. http://www.grisoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net
I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed as a dual-boot. I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with bsd as the guest OS. My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to the network card. What settings do I need and/or network driver do I need to set??? Generally you can figure out the NIC driver by looking through the boot messages. use dmesg(8) to look at the file of messages.When you find some text looking like it is talking about a NIC, then take the two leter code it is referring to and use it as your driver - in the kernel. On the machine I am currently on it looks like: em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.16 port 0xdf40-0xdf7f mem 0xfeae-0xfeaf irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci1 em0: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A So the driver is 'em' in this case. jerry Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMware?
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:08:38 +0100 (BST), james [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi [snip] As to Jud's problem, well, all you should have to do is get your windows host on the network any way you need, then use NAT on VMware. You'll then have a virtual network card on the guest OS - use DHCP to configure it, and well it just works. Ah - since I've always accessed the Net via dialup, DHCP and network cards (virtual or otherwise) are entirely new to me. Yet another opportunity to learn, which is a large part of what I enjoy (and what sometimes frustrates me as well) about FreeBSD. There's no need at all to configure PPP on the guest OS - it just uses the host't TCP/IP stack, regardless of if it's PPP, ethernet, or avian carrier protocol. Here, Pidgie, Pidgie, Pidgie ;-) Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMware?
Hi Thanks to all those who suggested that kernel parameter, I'll get a new kernel built - new to freebsd so hopefully compiling a kernel on a different system isn't too hard, Guess I just need to copy /modules and /kernel over. As to Jud's problem, well, all you should have to do is get your windows host on the network any way you need, then use NAT on VMware. You'll then have a virtual network card on the guest OS - use DHCP to configure it, and well it just works. There's no need at all to configure PPP on the guest OS - it just uses the host't TCP/IP stack, regardless of if it's PPP, ethernet, or avian carrier protocol. Cheers James On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jud wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:13:31 +0100 (BST), james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP SP1, running VMware 3.2. 4.7-RELEASE only thus far (see below). I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual machine just gets slower and slower. When I'm monitoring the stats using top, I notice that the CPU is spending ~50% of it's time in interrupt. If I Ctrl-C the procedure, the load goes down, but interrupt % stays around 20-25% and the system is still slow, even though it's not doing anything! FreeBSD 4.8-RC2 doesn't seem to have the same problem, I have successfully built world and it stayed responsive. Haven't installed -CURRENT or updated -STABLE yet, due to my problem, which I'm sure is the result of incredible thickness and density on my part: How does one get networking to work? Win2K host, dialup connection; VMware set to use NAT. When I type ppp -auto isp (isp has been substituted for papchap in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf) as a non-root user, I get the normal message that FreeBSD is using tun0 and am returned to the shell prompt. However, any attempt to communicate with the outside world, e.g, using cvsup, is fruitless. So having failed to give it (sorry, James), I'm asking for it - help, anyone? Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD in VMware?
Hi Folks Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP SP1, running VMware 3.2. I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual machine just gets slower and slower. When I'm monitoring the stats using top, I notice that the CPU is spending ~50% of it's time in interrupt. If I Ctrl-C the procedure, the load goes down, but interrupt % stays around 20-25% and the system is still slow, even though it's not doing anything! FreeBSD 4.8-RC2 doesn't seem to have the same problem, I have successfully built world and it stayed responsive. I have tried various things like disabling IDE DMA on the in the virtual machine's BIOS to no effect. Anyone? Cheers, James ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMware?
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:13:31 +0100 (BST), james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP SP1, running VMware 3.2. 4.7-RELEASE only thus far (see below). I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual machine just gets slower and slower. When I'm monitoring the stats using top, I notice that the CPU is spending ~50% of it's time in interrupt. If I Ctrl-C the procedure, the load goes down, but interrupt % stays around 20-25% and the system is still slow, even though it's not doing anything! FreeBSD 4.8-RC2 doesn't seem to have the same problem, I have successfully built world and it stayed responsive. Haven't installed -CURRENT or updated -STABLE yet, due to my problem, which I'm sure is the result of incredible thickness and density on my part: How does one get networking to work? Win2K host, dialup connection; VMware set to use NAT. When I type ppp -auto isp (isp has been substituted for papchap in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf) as a non-root user, I get the normal message that FreeBSD is using tun0 and am returned to the shell prompt. However, any attempt to communicate with the outside world, e.g, using cvsup, is fruitless. So having failed to give it (sorry, James), I'm asking for it - help, anyone? Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMware?
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, james wrote:
Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP
SP1, running VMware 3.2.
I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual machine just
gets slower and slower. When I'm monitoring the stats using top, I notice that
the CPU is spending ~50% of it's time in interrupt. If I Ctrl-C the procedure,
the load goes down, but interrupt % stays around 20-25% and the system is still
slow, even though it's not doing anything!
/sys/i386/conf/NOTES says:
# CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG disables the CMPXCHG instruction on i386 IA32
# machines. VmWare seems to emulate this instruction poorly, causing
# the guest OS to run very slowly.
So, you'll need to rebuild a new kernel on another system with:
options CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG
and copy it into the virtual machine in order to boot normally.
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