Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, April 11, 2011 a las 09:31:47AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > Hello, > > I removed the VMware' vmware-tools-freebsd and installed from the ports > x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware; > > When I now run 'X -configure' the X.org server Seg faults af

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 05:24:59PM -0400, Alexander Kabaev escribió: > > > X.org 7.5 already has VMware drivers, so you can just install the > > > x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware > > > ports. > > > > > > Alternatively, run "make config" in x11-drivers/

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread Devin Teske
On Apr 8, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric escribió: > >> On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and >>> I tried to install the vmware-tools-f

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread Alexander Kabaev
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:03:36 +0200 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric > escribió: > > > On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation > > >7.x and I tried to install the vmw

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric escribió: > On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: > >I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and > >I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to get the driver > >for Xorg, but it seem

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to get the driver for Xorg, but it seems that X.org 7.6.5. is not supported. My other VM runs a 8-CURRENT with X.org 7.4_1 which

Re: VMWare build failure

2003-11-21 Thread Ben Paley
Thanks to everyone who suggested things... now the port's been updated it compiles fine. Doesn't run, however, but I'll try to suss that out myself... thanks, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-curr

Re: VMWare build failure

2003-11-20 Thread Max Khon
Hello! On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:53:57PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > >Guessing you're running -CURRENT you have the kernel source installed, > >so my suggestion is to run vmware3. > > > >Unless you have a specific reason to run 2? > > > Maybe he doesn't run 3 because it also doesn't build: >

Re: VMWare build failure

2003-11-20 Thread Eric Anderson
Scott Likens wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:38, Ben Paley wrote: Hello all. I think this is a -current issue. When I started using -current I began to get weird behaviour from vmware2: eventually every time I powered on the virtual machine the screen would freeze up so I couldn't get a cons

Re: VMWare build failure

2003-11-20 Thread Scott Likens
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:38, Ben Paley wrote: > Hello all. > > I think this is a -current issue. When I started using -current I began to get > weird behaviour from vmware2: eventually every time I powered on the virtual > machine the screen would freeze up so I couldn't get a console, and then

Re: vmware-guestd on vmware hosted Windows

2003-08-30 Thread Scott M. Likens
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 04:32, Masahide -mac- NODA wrote: > Sorry, this is repot only. > > I'm upgrading from 2003/08/19 current to 2003/08/30 current on vmware > 3.x(host OS is Windows), and I tried to run vmware-guestd, > ># ./vmware-guestd >ELF binary type "0" not known. >/usr/local/

Re: VMWare inflicted kernel panic

2003-07-25 Thread Scott M. Likens
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 04:54, Sławek Żak wrote: > vmware3-3.2.1-2237_1, rtc-2002.03.05.2_2, world built on 21-7, backtrace: > > (kgdb) bt > #0 doadump () at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:240 > #1 0xc02217d9 in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:372 > #2 0xc0221bb8 in panic

Re: VMWare inflicted kernel panic

2003-07-25 Thread Fish
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:54, Sławek Żak wrote: > vmware3-3.2.1-2237_1, rtc-2002.03.05.2_2, world built on 21-7, backtrace: > > /S I've been seeing these for a few days as well. I just did a quick search for open PRs and found ports/54417 that says you should have "options VFS_AIO" in your ker

Re: VMWare not working anymore

2003-06-30 Thread Robert Watson
Did you rebuild the Vmware kernel module(s) from scratch? Make sure you do so each time you update to a newer kernel version, as it's important the data structures referenced by the module be the same version as the ones referenced by the kernel you're running. I've seen precisely this output whe

Re: VMWare not working anymore

2003-06-30 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
VMWare. > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Eirik Oeverby wrote: > Reinstalling what? VMWare or FreeBSD? > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Lutz Bichler wrote: > > > I got the same problem/message and

Re: VMWare not working anymore

2003-06-30 Thread Eirik Oeverby
Hi, Reinstalling what? VMWare or FreeBSD? /Eirik On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Lutz Bichler wrote: > I got the same problem/message and "solved" it by reinstalling ;-) > > Lutz > > -- > Lutz Bichler > Institute for Software Technology, Department of Computer Science > Univ. of the Fed. Armed Forces Muni

Re: VMWare 3.2 on FreeBSD

2003-01-26 Thread Kenneth Culver
No. On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Theodoor van der Kooij wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a way to run VMWare 3.2 on FreeBSD 5.0? > > regards, > > Theodoor van der Kooij. > -- > Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" > Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" > FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" >

Re: vmware

2002-03-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > never> Maybe it's better to make two different ports vmware-tools and > never> vmware-tools3, first of which is for vmware2? > > Ancient ports/emulators/vmware-tools (FreeBSD native vmware-tools for > VMware _1.x_) is outdated for VMware 2.x; i

Re: vmware

2002-03-31 Thread Makoto Matsushita
never> Maybe it's better to make two different ports vmware-tools and never> vmware-tools3, first of which is for vmware2? Ancient ports/emulators/vmware-tools (FreeBSD native vmware-tools for VMware _1.x_) is outdated for VMware 2.x; it doesn't have time sync feature. If you're VMware 2.x user

Re: vmware

2002-03-31 Thread Nevermind
Hello, Makoto Matsushita! On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:35:51AM +0900, you wrote: > ggombert> VMware tools for FreeBSD is woefully out of date as well, > % cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-tools > % make -V PORTVERSION > 3.0.0.1455 > > VMware 3.0 bundles a new VMware tools, and it is up-to-date vers

Re: VMware Workstation 3.0 For FreeBSD

2002-02-07 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
> Does anyone know if there is an active effort to port VMware Workstation > 3.0 for Linux to run under FreeBSD ?? Version 2 of Workstation is no longer > avaiable it seems... It is still available, in the Support/Archive section of their website. I'd love to know if someone plans to port 3.0 tho

Re: vmware

2002-02-03 Thread Glenn Gombert
I run VMware workstation under Windows 2000 on my laptop and install FreeBSD as a 'guest' operating system, the verison of VMware tools for FreeBSD dates all the way back to 1999 I think and has not been updated since :) At 12:35 AM 2/4/2002 +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > >ggombert> VMware to

Re: vmware

2002-02-03 Thread Makoto Matsushita
ggombert> VMware tools for FreeBSD is woefully out of date as well, Really? % cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-tools % make -V PORTVERSION 3.0.0.1455 VMware 3.0 bundles a new VMware tools, and it is up-to-date version as of Linux guests. % cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-tools % make -V MAINTAIN

Re: vmware

2002-02-03 Thread Glenn Gombert
Thanks for filing the incident report, VMware tools for FreeBSD is woefully out of date as well, X11 and -Current run fine under VMware workstation, with the patch that was mentioned several days ago :) > >matusita> I've just filed an incident (I have a license of VMware 3.0). > >I've received a

Re: vmware

2002-02-02 Thread Makoto Matsushita
matusita> I've just filed an incident (I have a license of VMware 3.0). I've received a reply from VMware: > Thank you for submitting the incident and letting us know the > potential workaround. > I must apologize because we do not support FreeBSD 5.0 as a guest OS > yet in Workstation 3.

Re: vmware

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Rhodes
I've got the 20020112 snapshot running in vmware. I did have similar trouble booting initially; I was installing a base system off an old 4.2- RELEASE CD I had and cvsuping straight to 5-CURRENT, and the system would always hang when attempting to mount the root partition. I got it working by cv

Re: vmware

2002-01-31 Thread Makoto Matsushita
rwatson> If someone has a commercial license, it would make sense rwatson> submitting this via a trouble ticket, as well as providing rwatson> the VMware support people with some brief directions on rwatson> installing 5.0. I've just filed an incident (I have a license of VMware 3.0). -- - Mako

Re: vmware

2002-01-31 Thread Robert Watson
Have to wonder if it wouldn't be worth e-mailing the VMware people about this -- they'd probably rather know in advance if there's a potential problem hosting future versions of FreeBSD under VMWare. If someone has a commercial license, it would make sense submitting this via a trouble ticket, as

Re: vmware

2002-01-31 Thread Glenn Gombert
Here is an item that was mentioned sometime ago on the mailing list, -CURRENT runs just fine under VMWare Workstation 3.0 (on Win2K Professional) once this patch is made: Glenn G. >>> Someone mentioned on a list somewhere that vmware takes forever to emulate the cmpxchg inst

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-21 Thread CHOI Junho
> "ID" == Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ID> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CHOI Junho writes: > > I'll try. Oh, I forget to say I appiled des's linux_ioctl patch. > ID> Ah, that's different then. I assumed from the error that you had ID> revision 1.76 of li

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-21 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CHOI Junho writes: > >I'll try. Oh, I forget to say I appiled des's linux_ioctl patch. > Ah, that's different then. I assumed from the error that you had revision 1.76 of linux_ioctl.c, but if that patch applied then you don't. Try updating your sources again; revi

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-21 Thread CHOI Junho
> "ID" == Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ID> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CHOI Junho writes: > > Hmm.. I have experienced another problem(-current of 19 Nov.) with > vmware. When it runs it comes up with the following dialog: > > "Encountered an error whi

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-21 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CHOI Junho writes: > >Hmm.. I have experienced another problem(-current of 19 Nov.) with >vmware. When it runs it comes up with the following dialog: > > "Encountered an error while initializing the ethernet address. > You probably have an old vnet driver. Try in

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-21 Thread CHOI Junho
> "HM" == Hellmuth Michaelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> After this, vmware comes up and then complains about not able to use HM> /dev/rtc (/dev/rtc is present in /compat/linux and is kld-loaded) but HM> then continues to start up and runs. Hmm.. I have experienced another pr

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-20 Thread Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
Hellmuth Michaelis writes: > Today i got it to compile and run: > > - apply the patch from Munehiro Matsuda to hostif.c, this makes the vmware2 > port compile under -current as of today > > - as described above, use /dev/vmnet1 instead of /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 > in /usr/local/etc/

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-20 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
>From the keyboard of Georg-W. Koltermann: > At Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:37:12 +0100 (MET), > Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > > > Thought i update my current this morning and ran into two problem with > > vmware: > > > > 1) when starting vmware, vmware.sh aborts with > > > >vmware.sh: cannot creat

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-19 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Georg-W. Koltermann" writes : >I also tried to update /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 to match the >/dev/vmnet1, and that got me just a litte bit farther. I now get >"Could not get address for /dev/vmnet1: Invalid argument >Failed to configure ethernet0." I added some pr

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-19 Thread Georg-W. Koltermann
At Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:37:12 +0100 (MET), Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > Thought i update my current this morning and ran into two problem with > vmware: > > 1) when starting vmware, vmware.sh aborts with > >vmware.sh: cannot create /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1: no such device >or address H

Re: vmware on current: Could not get addres for /dev/vmnet1

2001-10-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Has anyone seen similar problem on recent -current or has someone an > idea why vmware is issuing a SIOCGIFCONF ioctl without providing an > interface name? > > Oct 19 18:04:53 mp /boot/kernel/kernel: linux_ioctl_socket(): ioctl 35093 on To clarify, this is from debug

Re: vmware on current: Could not get addres for /dev/vmnet1

2001-10-19 Thread Mathias . Picker
On 19 Oct, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> The error >> >> Could not get address for /dev/vmnet1: argument is invalid >> Failed to configure ethernet0 >> >> is all I get... (this is the host-only case, for bridged it says >> something like could not get bri

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:44:41PM +0200, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > Let me first ask ... do you use the "suspend/resume" option?? Yep. > This caused the same "lockup" every few seconds on my machine too - > a much slower 400 PII. As soon as I "shutdown" Win9X and rebooted > it worked fine.

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-14 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:48:20AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC wrote: > You're running vmware sucsessfully in --current? Yes. -current from August 18th, and I'm running the vmware2-2.0.2.621 port. Installing Win98 took about 4 hours though -- most of that was wh

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC
T) > From: Reinier Bezuidenhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be? > > Hi .. > > I d

Re: VMWare on -current, [patches]

2000-09-13 Thread Julian Elischer
Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC wrote: > > You're running vmware sucsessfully in --current? I sync'd up the last > time I was in the office (last...Friday?) and the linux emulation package > refused to build in --current; complaining about an incopatible kernel > module. In f

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC
You're running vmware sucsessfully in --current? I sync'd up the last time I was in the office (last...Friday?) and the linux emulation package refused to build in --current; complaining about an incopatible kernel module. In fact, i had to comment out the linux proc file system (from the linux

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-13 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:09:00AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on >pci0 > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > > ad0: 17301MB [35152/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > > > > This is -current

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:27:45PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > be? I'm running it on my PIII 366 laptop. It's not great, but it's usable. The biggest factors I've seen effecting performance are memory related. Runnin

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:13:16 -0400 (EDT) Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm confused... 'fraid so. It is raw devices (for discs) that linux doesn't have, they are all block devices - although I may be out of date it's bee

RE: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Reinier Bezuidenhout
I have seen this too ... Let me first ask ... do you use the "suspend/resume" option?? If Yes then :) This caused the same "lockup" every few seconds on my machine too - a much slower 400 PII. As soon as I "shutdown" Win9X and rebooted it worked fine. I guess it is something in VMware that s

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > > be? > > > > I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the > > following disk controller / dis

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Julian Elischer
Nik Clayton wrote: > > Hi guys, > > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > be? > > I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the > following disk controller / disk > > atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on pci0 >

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-22 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: : As far as the loader is concerned, though, neither of these are on the : boot path, so we can typically wait until the kernel's up and we can use : some "real real" drivers. 8) Well, I have seen boards that support booting off pccard devices..

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-22 Thread Mike Smith
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: > : > a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > : > hardware configuration. > : > : Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader > : understands PCI and PnP, for example. > > How hard would it be t

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: : > a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying : > hardware configuration. : : Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader : understands PCI and PnP, for example. How hard would it be to add usb and pc

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-19 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > > It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > > > hardware configuration. > > > > I disagree. I would like to tell which machine I am booting on to > > choose an appropriate kernel. > > > Eve

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-18 Thread Luoqi Chen
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > > hardware configuration. > > I disagree. I would like to tell which machine I am booting on to > choose an appropriate kernel. > Eventually (it may take a while) we should be able to boot any

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-13 Thread Mike Smith
> > > a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > > > hardware configuration. > > > > Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader > > understands PCI and PnP, for example. > > > Why do we want to do that? Are we going to offload device probe routines

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-13 Thread Luoqi Chen
> > a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > > hardware configuration. > > Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader > understands PCI and PnP, for example. > Why do we want to do that? Are we going to offload device probe routines to the loader

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-13 Thread Mike Smith
> a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > hardware configuration. Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader understands PCI and PnP, for example. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn h

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-13 Thread Luoqi Chen
> Given the way VMware works, I'd have nothing against making it a FICL > words, except... > > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they wer

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:47 AM -0700 6/11/00, Mike Smith wrote: >It's not a port, it's a platform. We probably want to add extra >words to detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64, >etc. but that doesn't invalidate the basic idea. For instance, I might be running the vmware program itself under linux,

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having > > > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have > > > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they were all > > > more generic features. > > > > It's not a po

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mike Smith wrote: > > > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having > > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have > > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they were all > > more generic features. > > It's not a port, it's a platf

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Peter Wemm wrote: > > > 2) Add the VMware detecting to FICL, as originally suggested. > > Why make #2 vmware specific? Why not set $emulation to native,vmware,bochs, > etc. This is applicable to any platform that may have some sort of emulator. > Putting it in an environment variable has the a

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > VMware intercepts the inb/outb instruction to port 0x5658 when the eax > > > register is set to a magic value, otherwise it would be handled as any > > > other ports. > > > > I think, again, that adding an i386-specific word that detects the > > presence of VMware i

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Peter Wemm
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > VMware intercepts the inb/outb instruction to port 0x5658 when the eax > > > register is set to a magic value, otherwise it would be handled as any > > > other ports. > > > > I think, again, that adding an i386-specific word that detects th

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > VMware intercepts the inb/outb instruction to port 0x5658 when the eax > > > register is set to a magic value, otherwise it would be handled as any > > > other ports. > > > > I think, again, that adding an i386-specific word that detects the > > presence of VMware i

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mike Smith wrote: > > > VMware intercepts the inb/outb instruction to port 0x5658 when the eax > > register is set to a magic value, otherwise it would be handled as any > > other ports. > > I think, again, that adding an i386-specific word that detects the > presence of VMware is a perfectly se

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Smith
> > As for setting registers ti specific values... huh? Why does this > > matter? Can you explain exactly what your code does and how? > > > VMware intercepts the inb/outb instruction to port 0x5658 when the eax > register is set to a magic value, otherwise it would be handled as any > other por

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-10 Thread Luoqi Chen
> As for setting registers ti specific values... huh? Why does this > matter? Can you explain exactly what your code does and how? > VMware intercepts the inb/outb instruction to port 0x5658 when the eax register is set to a magic value, otherwise it would be handled as any other ports. -lq T

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Luoqi Chen wrote: > > > We have inb and outb. Can't vmware be written in Forth? If inl cannot be > > replaced with inb, I'd rather add inl than vmware. > But we can't set registers to specific values before inb/outb, which also > means our inb/outb are quite useless in making BIOS calls. BIOS c

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-10 Thread Luoqi Chen
> We have inb and outb. Can't vmware be written in Forth? If inl cannot be > replaced with inb, I'd rather add inl than vmware. > But we can't set registers to specific values before inb/outb, which also means our inb/outb are quite useless in making BIOS calls. > IMHO, it would be better to add

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Luoqi Chen wrote: > > Would anyone object if I add a ficl word to detect whether we're booting > from a vmware virtual machine? I find it extremely useful when I'm running > FreeBSD as a guest under NT. Because it is a dual cpu box, I can't use a > single kernel to boot both directly or inside th

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Peter Wemm wrote: > > Christopher Masto wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:35PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > > > I'm not sure it is a good idea to name this variable VMWare as > > > that is implementation specific. It may be better to have a var > > > named 'emulation' set to 'non

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Peter Wemm
Christopher Masto wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:35PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > > I'm not sure it is a good idea to name this variable VMWare as > > that is implementation specific. It may be better to have a var > > named 'emulation' set to 'none' or 'vmware' or 'bochs' or ..

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Christopher Masto
> > extern void ficlOutb(FICL_VM *pVM); > > extern void ficlInb(FICL_VM *pVM); I'm an idiot. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the d

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Christopher Masto
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:35PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > I'm not sure it is a good idea to name this variable VMWare as > that is implementation specific. It may be better to have a var > named 'emulation' set to 'none' or 'vmware' or 'bochs' or ... Mmm.. or, giving forth the abi

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Luoqi Chen wrote: > > Would anyone object if I add a ficl word to detect whether we're booting > from a vmware virtual machine? I find it extremely useful when I'm running > FreeBSD as a guest under NT. Because it is a dual cpu box, I can't use a > single kernel to boot both directly or inside th

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> Would anyone object if I add a ficl word to detect whether we're booting > from a vmware virtual machine? Sounds good to me! -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a

Re: VMWare 2.0R broken - linux ioctl(13, 1260, *) not implemented

2000-03-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 01:35:27PM +, Nick Sayer wrote: > Ah! I found it! > > --- linux_ioctl.h.orig Mon Feb 28 11:50:23 2000 > +++ linux_ioctl.h Mon Feb 28 11:24:08 2000 > @@ -32,6 +32,25 @@ > #define_LINUX_IOCTL_H_ This patch is fubar'ed. Your mailer wrapped lines and tur

Re: VMWare 2.0R broken - linux ioctl(13, 1260, *) not implemented

2000-03-05 Thread Nick Sayer
Ah! I found it! --- linux_ioctl.h.orig Mon Feb 28 11:50:23 2000 +++ linux_ioctl.h Mon Feb 28 11:24:08 2000 @@ -32,6 +32,25 @@ #define_LINUX_IOCTL_H_ /* + * disk + */ +#define LINUX_BLKROSET 0x125d +#define LINUX_BLKROGET 0x125e +#define LINUX_BLKRRPART

Re: VMWare 2.0R broken - linux ioctl(13, 1260, *) not implemented

2000-03-05 Thread Nick Sayer
Andrew Atrens wrote: > > A missing (not implemented) linux ioctl is breaking VMWare 2.0 - > > > linux: 'ioctl' fd=13, cmd=1260 ('^R',96) not implemented I implemented this ioctl. It's not as hard as you think. You do a DIOCGDINFO and return d_secperunit. But unfortunately, when I did this, a wa

Re: VMWare 2.0R broken - linux ioctl(13, 1260, *) not implemented

2000-03-05 Thread Tatsumi Hosokawa
At Sun, 5 Mar 2000 01:32:39 -0500 (EST), Andrew Atrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A missing (not implemented) linux ioctl is breaking VMWare 2.0 - > > > linux: 'ioctl' fd=13, cmd=1260 ('^R',96) not implemented > > > After rummaging around in the 2.3 kernel, I found the following in > `linu

Re: Vmware and -current

1999-12-25 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 23 December 1999 at 21:29:08 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > seems to work fine, > except that now we don't have block devices any more > so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. > > I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger > on" that r

Re: Vmware and -current

1999-12-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > It is not out of the question to bring buffered disk access back, > but it will be an ioctl enabled function for disks, not a vnode > mode. Peter has suggested doing it with a layered device a'la vn(4). Actually that was me. To Unsubscribe

Re: Vmware and -current

1999-12-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas David Rivers writes : >> seems to work fine, >> except that now we don't have block devices any more >> so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. >> >> I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger >> on" that really

Re: Vmware and -current

1999-12-24 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> seems to work fine, > except that now we don't have block devices any more > so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. > > I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger > on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices. Hmmm I wonder what

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 11:49:33PM +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > >> >At this point we must still be in freebsd xinit, then XF86_VMware(linux > >> >server) get started. I'm running a linux X server under freebsd. Under > >> >3.2R all I had to do was change the symlink for X to point to XF86_

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 01:07:13PM +0200, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: > > > It needs ttyp0 as tty0 and so on. > > I tried it myself under current and got the X11 window. > > but it complained that it can't find /proc/cpuinfo. > > I never beleaved that it would work after that. >

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Eric J. Chet
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > >Hello > > > > I had tried it both ways, when I said having them symlinked to > >ttyv0 and ttyv4 would panic with "fatal trap 12" It was suggested that I > >use ttyp0 and ttyp4 respectfully. > > I don't think ttyp* will work. I don't know who sug

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>> >At this point we must still be in freebsd xinit, then XF86_VMware(linux >> >server) get started. I'm running a linux X server under freebsd. Under >> >3.2R all I had to do was change the symlink for X to point to XF86_VMware, >> >under -current /dev/tty0 can't be found. >> > >> >Where was

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Eric J. Chet
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > >At this point we must still be in freebsd xinit, then XF86_VMware(linux > >server) get started. I'm running a linux X server under freebsd. Under > >3.2R all I had to do was change the symlink for X to point to XF86_VMware, > >under -current /dev

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>At this point we must still be in freebsd xinit, then XF86_VMware(linux >server) get started. I'm running a linux X server under freebsd. Under >3.2R all I had to do was change the symlink for X to point to XF86_VMware, >under -current /dev/tty0 can't be found. > >Where was linux "/dev/tty0"

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Eric J. Chet
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > "Eric J. Chet" wrote: > > > > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > > It needs ttyp0 as tty0 and so on. > > > I tried it myself under current and got the X11 window. > > > but it complained that it can't find /proc/cpuinfo. > > > I never

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Bernd Walter wrote: > It needs ttyp0 as tty0 and so on. > I tried it myself under current and got the X11 window. > but it complained that it can't find /proc/cpuinfo. > I never beleaved that it would work after that. I assume you didn't try to make a regular file called cpuinfo in /compat/linux

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
"Eric J. Chet" wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > It needs ttyp0 as tty0 and so on. > > I tried it myself under current and got the X11 window. > > but it complained that it can't find /proc/cpuinfo. > > I never beleaved that it would work after that. > > Hello > I

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-03 Thread Eric J. Chet
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: > It needs ttyp0 as tty0 and so on. > I tried it myself under current and got the X11 window. > but it complained that it can't find /proc/cpuinfo. > I never beleaved that it would work after that. Hello It should work, I used it under fbsd-3.2R f

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:30:25PM -0400, Eric J. Chet wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > :--0-169768575-933691257=:71237 > > :Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > : > > :Hello > > : I have been using FreeBSD under vmware for a few weeks now, > > :running 3.

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-03 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 04:25:40PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > If you're asking for a freely-available open-source BSD-license > product which does the same things vmware does, I am afraid I > don't know what projects are underway. The only one I know of at all is freemware (www.freemware.o

Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:08 PM -0400 8/3/99, Ayan George wrote: >I've been wondering -- are there any plans for a FreeBSD version >of VMware? The makers of VMware are probably wondering if they would sell enough copies of a FreeBSD-based version. If you would buy such a product, then let them know. Check www.vmwa

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