Re: 5.3-RELEASE-p6 + vmware3 == crash?

From: Sime Mikecin (simemaknime_at_logos.hr)
Date: 04/06/05


Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:26:01 +0200


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> Thomas Schweikle <tps@vr-web.de> wrote:
> > Are you shure your VMware installation is OK? Did you install
> > compat3 and compat4 packages (but AFAIK VMware only needs compat3)?
>
> I made no attempt to install either, although I did select FreeBSD-4
> compatibility during the OS install. As for the rest... I just did a
> "cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3 && make install".
>
> VMWare runs under Linux emulation, doesn't it?

yes it does.

You should have read /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message:

    "If you experience freezes on power on, be sure that the ACPI module is
not loaded."

ACPI is enabled by default on 5.x
But unfortunatelly disabling ACPI could break something else...



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