Vmware3 + FreeBSD 5.3 or 4.11
Per Hedeland
per at hedeland.org
Mon Jan 31 09:49:12 PST 2005
Simon ekar <simon.zekar at literal.si> wrote:
>
>I'm wondering, does anyone have a working and relatively stable
>configuration running vmware3 on FreeBSD 5.3 or maybe 4.11 ? I'm unable
>set it up on both versions, but it worked great on 4.9.
Well, I have two 5.3-RELEASE boxes running vmware3 acceptably stable,
though with some "issues":
Box 1 required that I built a kernel w/o 'device apic' - with apic in,
my box didn't quite freeze, but my mouse became unusable and the cpu
usage counters stopped running - giving vmstat output like:
procs memory page disks faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad4 cd0 in sy cs us sy id
...
2 1 0 444208 791176 1 0 0 0 2 0 28 0 244 937 548 0 0 0
Furthermore, when built from an up-to-date ports tree (i.e. using
linux_base-8) as of three weeks ago, it would segfault immediately on
startup if run by a normal user, while it worked fine for root. I backed
down to the ports tree that came with 5.3-RELEASE, and built from that
it now works perfectly fine.
Box 2 had neither of those problems, i.e. vmware3 works with device apic
in the kernel and built from an up-to-date (as of three weeks ago) ports
three - however (only) on exit from vmware I get a complaint about aio:
VMware Workstation Unrecoverable error: (VMX)
AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712
Please request support and include the contents of the log file: ...
Since it doesn't seem to affect operations, I've just ignored it - I
don't run vmware much on this box though, so it's possible that there
are nasty problems lurking there, and I just haven't seen them...
--Per Hedeland
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