Subject: RE: VMware
To: K. Richard Pixley <K.Richard.Pixley@nominum.com>
From: Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@caymas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/17/2003 11:55:31
Me too.

But from the question, it seems like the person wants to run
vmware on NetBSD (not NetBSD on vmware).

Is that correct?

A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-help-owner@NetBSD.org
> [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@NetBSD.org]On Behalf Of K. Richard Pixley
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: Klaus Haeberlein
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: VMware
> 
> 
> I run netbsd-1.6.1 inside vmware on a regular basis.
> 
> SCSI virtual disks don't work.  Seems the scsi driver resets frequently 
> causing vmware to believe it's broken.  Use IDE disks and be sure to put 
> your cdrom on a different IDE bus from your hard disk, otherwise netbsd 
> doesn't see the hard disk.
> 
> I haven't tried running vmware on netbsd-1.6.1, but I have heard other 
> folks discussing doing so with linux emulation.  I can't tell you how 
> well it works.
> 
> --rich
> 
> Klaus Haeberlein wrote:
> > Has anybody VMware been installed / ported in NetBSD 1.6?
> > What is the experience?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Klaus
> 
>