Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions?

[Marco Trentini]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:30:00AM -0400, bsdfsse wrote:
> 
> I tried some more things I read about online, but it still locks up:
> 
> I rebuilt my kernel with "HZ=1200", and that got rid of the "rtc: 
> 100>kern.hz" messages.
> 
> My /boot/loader.conf needed this:
>    hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
> which changed this message:
>    ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA no interrupt but good status
> to become this message:
>    ad0: WARNING - WRITE_MUL no interrupt but good status
> The machine still hangs when I start the virtual machine.
> 
> As soon as I hit the "Power on" button, FreeBSD nearly freezes.  I can 
> do a few things, but even after I "kill -9" vmware, the machine is still 
> hosed.
> 
> I really need to get VMWare to work, or else I have to reload Linux (or 
> Windows).  I own VMware 3.2 and 4.5 for both Windows and Linux.
> 
> Each time my machine locks up, it starts running "fsck" in the background.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Just one.

Do you have ACPI turn on? In this case try turn off it.

Read pkg-message of the vmware3 port for more details.


-- 
Marco Trentini                mark at remotelab.org
http://www.remotelab.org/