Running vmware3 port under 6.1-RELEASE with ACPI and APIC

[Josef Karthauser]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:15:59PM -0500, Sean Welch wrote:
> I've been happily using vmware3 for some time now but I find that I
> can't use it under 6.1-RELEASE because of the dreaded hang on
> power-on.
> 
> I took a look in the port directory and found the recommendation to
> disable ACPI and/or APIC.  Unfortunately, doing either will cause my
> laptop (Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi) to freeze during boot.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for getting this to run?  It runs
> perfectly under my installation of 6.0-RELEASE without disabling
> anything.
> 
> I'd be happy to do any experimentation necessary to get this figured
> out.

Well, I don't know if this helps, but I'm running it sucessfully under:

    FreeBSD genius.tao.org.uk 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #36: Sun Apr 23 21:04:59 BST 2006 joe at genius.tao.org.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENIUS2  i386

using these ports:

    linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7/
    linux_base-suse-9.2/
    vmware-guestd-4.5.2.8848_2/
    vmware-tools-4.5.2.8848_2/   
    vmware3-3.2.1.2242_12,1/

I've got this defined in /etc/make.conf

    OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=suse-9.2

I can confirm that I do have acpi enabled.

Joe
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