vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 and raw disks?

Josef Karthauser joe at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 22 23:04:19 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:26:03PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote:
>  > Depends upon what you mean by work.  [...]
> 
> I could never get it to run on my laptop, and blamed it a bad
> interaction with acpi, as described here:
> 
>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message?rev=1.7&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
> 
> Since the laptop needs acpi to behave, it essentially didn't work.
> 
> It sounds like I should try again....

I never saw that problem in my travels... perhaps it doesn't affect
FBSD6?

Joe
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