Hellmuth Michaelis writes: > Today i got it to compile and run: > > - apply the patch from Munehiro Matsuda to hostif.c, this makes the vmware2 > port compile under -current as of today > > - as described above, use /dev/vmnet1 instead of /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh > > - replace /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 with a symlink to /dev/vmnet1 > (perhaps the previous step would be unnecessary by this one) > > After this, vmware comes up and then complains about not able to use > /dev/rtc (/dev/rtc is present in /compat/linux and is kld-loaded) but > then continues to start up and runs. > > One thing which looks funny to me is this that the vmnet1 device files > have different minor numbers: > > <ROOT@bert>/root ll /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK /dev/vmnet1 > crw------- 1 root wheel 149, 0x00800001 Nov 20 18:50 /dev/vmnet1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 149, 0x00010001 Nov 20 18:42 >/usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK > > (where /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1-BAK is from the vmware2 port install > and moved from vmnet1 to vmnet1-BAK before the new symlink was made).
After all, after block disk devices was removed wmvare stops support plain disks :(. Do anybody have solution for it ? > hellmuth > -- > Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 > HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 > Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de > D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de -- TSB Russian Express, Moscow Vladimir B. Grebenschikov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
