Subject: Re: vmware-module3 on NetBSD 1.6P: compile problem?
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/20/2003 15:53:16
* Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> [0341 10:41]:
> Rasputin wrote:
> > * Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> [0359 09:59]:
> > > I didn't touch the *_post.sh scripts at all. So yes, this needs to be
> > > modified for -current. The *_post.sh scripts shouldn't really be needed
> > > on -current at all, since vmmon and vmnet have now reserved major
> > > and thus the device files could be created by vmware3-module pkg itself.
> > 
> > I got errors about not being able to open /dev/vmmon
> > - no such file or directory - and vmnet1 isn't appearing in ifconfig either.
> > 
> > All built fine, but nothing actually running yet....
> 
> The "shouldn't" above was meant like "the pkg can be changed so that
> it wouldn't be required". The *_post.sh scripts are necessary at this
> moment even on -current, unless you create the device files manually.
> 
> Did you do what the pkg install advised to do? From INSTALL:

Think I missed a commit somewhere - cvs updated the pkgsrc directory,
rebuilt and it starts now. Thanks a lot and sorry for list chatter...

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