Subject: Re: VMware
To: Stephen Brown <munkay@coolfactor.org>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@dingo.ping.net.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/24/2001 16:59:00
Stephen Brown wrote
[...]
> I setup a configuration file for Windows 98, and then clicked on the Power
> On button.. to get the following...
>
> Cannot find /proc/cpuinfo
>
> So I setup procfs with a little help, but to no avail.
>
> This is probably something really really simple, but I just don't know
> where to look... I would imagine that there will be other things needed in
> /proc too, such as memory etc.. but I am purely guessing here.
Are you mounting procfs with the linux option enabled? I've the
following line in my /etc/fstab file:
/proc /proc procfs rw,-olinux
Remember: vmware is a linux binary package that relies on certain Linux
functionlities and hence this needs to be taken into consideration
when installing it on NetBSD.
cheerio Berndt
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