Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Luke Bakken
 You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this.


That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a
reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to
add new disks without a reboot but, as I described below, have not
found a way to get the 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
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Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Warren Block

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Luke Bakken wrote:


You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this.



That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a
reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to
add new disks without a reboot but, as I described 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
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Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Devin Teske

On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote:

 You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this.
 
 
 That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a
 reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to
 add new disks without a reboot but, as 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
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Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Lucian
On 18 December 2012 15:27, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote:

 On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote:
 Live resize (without reboot even) is something being worked on for the future 
 10.x series.

Looking forward to this, we can't offer cloud instances with FreeBSD
until this happens.
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Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-17 Thread Devin Teske
It can be done but it's not easy and not pretty.

You'll have to rewrite the partition scheme to grow *only* the last partition 
and then use growfs on the last partition to zero the new inodes within its 
newly defined range.

You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this.

I 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).
-- 
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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
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Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 21:34:43 +0100 Erik Norgaard 
norga...@locolomo.org wrote:



Hi:

I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today
to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed
FreeBSD.

This works except for three problems:

- 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?



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Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.orgwrote:

 Hi:

 I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today
 to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed
 FreeBSD.

 This works except for three problems:

 - The 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


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Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 17/03/2010 10:34 μ.μ., Erik Norgaard wrote:
 Hi:

 I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried
 today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up
 the installed FreeBSD.

 This works except for three problems:

 - The disk device is renamed, I 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.


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Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Polyack

On 03/17/10 16:34, Erik Norgaard wrote:

Hi:

I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried 
today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up 
the installed FreeBSD.


This works except for three problems:

- The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can 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





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Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Erik Norgaard

On 17/03/10 21:40, Steve Polyack wrote:

On 03/17/10 16:34, Erik Norgaard wrote:



- I can't see the network devices from vmware

Do you mean you can't see a NIC from within FreeBSD on top of VMware?
You will have to choose Other (64-bit) for the OS type and/or choose
the e1000/Intel1000 device 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

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Re: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Ivan Voras

Erik Norgaard wrote:

Hi:

I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried 
today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the 
installed FreeBSD.


This is possible, I've run such a setup for a long time. But you don't 
say which versions of the 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.



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Re: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi

2009-05-09 Thread Derek Ragona

At 05:44 AM 5/6/2009, Daniels Vanags wrote:

We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD
Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon
processor.

Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server.
When trying to boot, getting error: 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

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Re: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi

2009-05-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 13:44 +0300, Daniels Vanags wrote:
 We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD
 Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon
 processor.
 
 Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server.
 When trying to 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

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Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for
 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ?


The boot manager can be whichever you want.  If you are installing on
a VM, chances are you're not dual-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.

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Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi,

 If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for
 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ?

Yes, or choos not to install a boot manager. Both worked with freebsd 6.x 
and ESX 2.5x

 Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters 
 must one enter??

The next that's available in your lan.

Hth.

Regards,
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Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Pieter Donche

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote:


The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure
Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter??


This would be contingent on how you have networking set up.  Do you
have NAT or Bridged only?  If NAT, use rc.conf with the 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)?




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Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote:

 The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure
 Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter??

 This would be contingent on how you have 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.

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Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Pieter Donche

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote:


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote:


The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure
Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter??


This 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.

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Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Derek Ragona

At 06:57 AM 11/22/2008, Pieter Donche wrote:

If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for
'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ?

The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure
Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter??


You 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

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Re: FreeBSD and VMWare

2006-06-24 Thread Rico

  I have never gotten vmware to run as a program under FreeBSD, i.e. using

FreeBSD as the host for other vmware machines.  I have tried several times.
Technically, VMWare doesn't support it.

We have used FreeBSD at our company as a host for some Windows XP based 
machines running on VMWare 3 from ports. But I am not sure if that is 
exactly what you mean. It is running just fine.


Best and kind regards,
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Re: FreeBSD and VMWare

2006-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to YTResearch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 I noticed that someone asked questions concerning VMware on FreeBSD  
 which was my first realization that the two even go together. I have  
 the opportunity to advocate FreeBSD as a possible replacement to run  
 that software as a parting shot in 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.

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Re: freebsd and vmware?

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

 A. if you want to install FreeBSD using vmware in Windows, 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
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-21 Thread sd

Try to parse /boot/beastie.4th

Message: 30
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:37:07 -0400
From: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware
To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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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
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Norberto Meijome

Aaron Peterson wrote:
I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. 
If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware.  If I start with

ACPI disabled it crashes VMware.  If I start in Safe Mode it works
great.  So...  I want to learn about what is different about booting
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
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Peterson
 On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Aaron Peterson wrote:

  I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine.
  If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware.  If I start with
  ACPI disabled it crashes VMware.  If I start in Safe Mode it works
  great.  So...  I want to learn 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
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Re: freebsd and vmware?

2005-09-20 Thread Yuan Jue
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:23, mgedv online wrote:
 is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on
 a logical partition?

 has anyone successfully setup such a configuration?

A. if you want to install FreeBSD using vmware in Windows, the answer is YES

B. if you want to install vmware in FreeBSD in order to run other OS, my 
suggestion is looking back in the mailing list.

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Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org

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

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

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Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org

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

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Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-19 Thread J. W. Ballantine

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
   
  


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Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-18 Thread JAroslav Suchanek
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:36:18AM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
 
 I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed
 as a dual-boot.  I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with
 bsd as the guest OS.  My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to
 the network card.  What 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
 
 
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Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
 
 
 I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed
 as a dual-boot.  I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with
 bsd as the guest OS.  My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to
 the network card.  What settings do I need and/or network driver do I
 need to set???

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
 
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Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-04-01 Thread Jud
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:08:38 +0100 (BST), james [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
 Hi
[snip]
 As to Jud's problem, well, all you should have to do is get your windows
 host on 
 the network any way you need, then use NAT on VMware. You'll then have a 
 virtual network card on the guest OS - use DHCP to 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
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Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-03-31 Thread james
Hi

Thanks to all those who suggested that kernel parameter, I'll get a new kernel 
built - new to freebsd so hopefully compiling a kernel on a different system 
isn't too hard, Guess I just need to copy /modules and /kernel over.

As to Jud's problem, well, all you should have to do is get your 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
 

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Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-03-31 Thread Jud
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:13:31 +0100 (BST), james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Folks

Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is 
WinXP SP1, running VMware 3.2.
4.7-RELEASE only thus far (see below).

I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual 
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
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Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

2003-03-31 Thread Andy Farkas
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, james wrote:

 Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD under VMware? My host OS is WinXP
 SP1, running VMware 3.2.

 I'm trying to buildworld (5.0-CURRENT as of today) but the virtual machine just
 gets slower and slower. When I'm monitoring the stats using top, I notice 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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