vmware3 problems on FreeBSD 4.9

[Andy Sparrow]

> I did not know that I need the "device tap" within my kernel configuration. 
> As Mike told me, I added it and built a new kernel. To be sure that there's 
> no confusion between my former vmware2 and the vmware3 installation I also 
> deinstalled the vmware3 port and then removed what has been left in /dev 
> and /usr/local/etc by hand.
> After I reinstalled vmware3 everything went fine.

Hmm. I did everything you did, but was unable to get the network 
interface working with VMWare3, and full-screen mode didn't do anything 
for me either.

I _think_ the host-only mode setup was OK, because I kept the same 
config when I reverted to VMWare2, and it works fine there  (I was 
running in Bridged mode before).

 
> A big "thank you" to Mike again :)

Yup, thanks for working on this!

Cheers,

AS

> 
> cheers,
> Stefan
> 
> --On Wednesday, March 17, 2004 18:50:27 +0100 Stefan Farrenkopf 
> <farrenkopf at mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > after all the discussion about vmware3 on 4.9 I thought it's wort to try
> > it. Here are the steps I made and at the end I describe the problem I
> > have now.
> >
> > I updated my source and applied the kernel patch, I also added VFS_AIO to
> > my kernel configuration file.
> > uname -a says now: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p4
> > Then I removed vmware2 and installed vmware3 from the ports.
> > I answered no to netgraph binding and configured a private IP adress and
> > a netmask during the installation. Below you will find my config file
> > (/usr/local/etc/vmware/config):
> >
> > vmware.fullpath = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware"
> > wizard.fullpath = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-wizard"
> > dhcpd.fullpath = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmnet-dhcpd"
> > loop.fullpath = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-loop"
> > libdir = "/usr/local/lib/vmware"
> > vmnet1.HostOnlyAddress = "192.168.254.1"
> > vmnet1.HostOnlyNetMask = "255.255.255.0"
> >
> > I added the following line to my /etc/sysctl.conf file:
> > kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
> >
> > Because of the new kernel I rebooted the machine.
> >
> > After I got back to a running system, I tried to run vmware with my
> > vmware2 configuration and with a new configuration where I pointed to the
> > existing disks (2 Virtual IDE drives).
> > I had a look at my vmware2 configuration and added the cdrom by hand
> > (/dev/adc0c). When I try to Choose this device from my /dev directory it
> > does not show up in the open dialog. There are instead only a few devices
> > with typical linux names (hda, ...).
> >
> > The main problem I have now: I don't have a working vmnet interface :( If
> > I PowerOn vmware it complains about the missing /dev/vmnet1.
> > I tried to restart the vmware components by executing
> > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware stop/start and I had to realize that there's a
> > problem with the initialisation of vmnet1. Here's the output of
> > "vmware.sh start":
> > ifconfig: interface vmnet1 does not exist
> > and if I do a stop the same message appears.
> >
> > I removed the Host-only network interface from my vmware configuration
> > and bootet the win2k installation with success. I was able to install the
> > newer vmware tools, but I was not able to switch to full screen mode. If
> > I tried to nothing happened.
> >
> > Besides the missing network interface everything is fine, but without the
> > network I am not able to connect to the samba daemon and vmware is
> > useless for my application :(
> >
> > Any suggestions how to solve the problem?
> >
> > best wishes,
> > Stefan
> >
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