On 03/02/07 12:22, Greg Larkin wrote:
Hey all,
Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware
on windows XP ?
I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw
a mail in this
mailing list regarding some problems while installing on
vmware. Could not
make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while
installing on Vmware.
Regards,
ajay.
Hi Ajay,
I wrote in to the list a little while back about VMware installation
problems that I had with FreeBSD 6.2, but the issue was completely
related to the CPU architecture (Via C3 Nehemiah) that I was using.
VMware doesn't officially support that processor, even though it's
supposed to be Intel compatible. Another list member sent me a kernel
patch that fixed the problem (thanks ghozzy).
The issue is not that the C3 is not x86 compatible, because it is
completely compatible. The issue here is that vmware is allowing all
the CPU features to be advertised to the guest OS, when it does not in
fact emulate all those features. The C3 CPU has additional features
that Intel processors do not have, like the RNG and AES encryption.
Either the guest OS needs to know not to use them, or vmware needs to be
smarter and emulate that feature.
Eric
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