vmware3 problems on FreeBSD 4.9

[Stefan Farrenkopf]

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