VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4

[Guido van Rooij]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:10:29AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> I have seen many reports of problems, and a few suggested
> work arounds, which I tried, but no one saying they have vmware3
> running correctly on either 4.11 or 5.4 systems.  Of cource
> you never hear about what works, only about what is broken :-(.
> 

Sorry about that ;-()

> I have managed to get it running here by going back to the
> old linux_base-7.1.    I am in the process of doing further
> regression testing to find out exactly when it broke, it
> was some time between linux_base-7.1 and linux_base-8.8.

I have the following running config:
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Sep 22 10:42 /var/db/pkg/linux_base-8-8.0_4/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  9 17:07 /var/db/pkg/vmware3-3.2.1.2242_10,1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 23  2004 /var/db/pkg/rtc-2004.02.24.1_4/

On:
FreeBSD beck.gvr.org 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #8: Thu Apr  7 21:44:31 CEST 2005     guido at beck.gvr.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MOUSE  i386

I only run w2k as guest-os.

-Guido