5.4-RELEASE and VMWare 3.2.1 build-2242

Matthias Apitz guru at Sisis.de
Mon Sep 12 06:45:19 PDT 2005


Hi,

I've compiled the VMware support in 5.4R from the ports collection
/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3:

PORTNAME=       vmware3
PORTVERSION=    3.2.1.2242

After installing and fixing a bug in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh
where is a line

   networking=

and later asked the variable with:

   if [ $networking -eq 1 ]; then
   ....

I've loaded the kernel modules and Linux procfs:

# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   12 0xc0400000 5dde24   kernel
 2    1 0xc09de000 47e4     if_tap.ko
 3    1 0xc09e3000 d164     kqemu.ko
 4   14 0xc09f1000 56270    acpi.ko
 5    5 0xc1484000 17000    linux.ko
 6    1 0xc14dd000 8000     vmmon_up.ko
 7    1 0xc14e5000 2000     vmnet.ko
 8    1 0xc1504000 2000     rtc.ko
# kldunload acpi.ko
# kldload aio.ko
# mount_linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh start
# uname -a
FreeBSD almare.Sisis.de 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8 10:21:06 UTC 2005     root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


Then I can launch 'vmware', create a config of some VM but
on power-on it panic's the VMware with:

$ vmware
Setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp.
VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712
VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712

I googled a little bit around and found some hints about running
a tool from vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz but this later only
paniced the FreeBSD kernel. Do I miss something?

The goal is that I want to switch over from SuSE 8.1 to FreeBSD
and if possible copy over as well my VWware disks from the old
installation to VMware on FreeBSD. Will this work?

	matthias

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