vmware3 on FreeBSD 6.2 - minor (?) svga problem ...

[Eric Anderson]

On 05/06/07 22:52, Gore Jarold wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> --- Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a little howto on vmware at  
>>
>>
>> http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1534
>>
>> The only thing I see missing with your description
>> is that sometimes,
>> I've found I had to restart after adding the device
>> hint mentioned in
>> that article.  Also, did you start the shell?  (It
>> was in /usr/X11R6 but
>> if you did /usr/local it should be in
>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
>>
>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh start
>> (or, if you took defaults /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d)
> 
> 
> Ok, I put the hint:
> 
> hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
> 
> into /boot/device.hints
> 
> and then rebooted.  But the error persists.
> 
> No, I do not start with the 001.vmware.sh script -
> when I run it with the 'start' argument, all it does
> is echo the word:
> 
> VMware
> 
> and does not do anything.  I can start vmware by
> simply typing "vmware" at a prompt, but the script
> itself does nothing at all (except echo the word
> "VMware").  THe same is true if I run it with an
> absolute path:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh start


That command will only work if you have vmware_enable="YES" in your 
/etc/rc.conf.

Eric