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| author | Max Khon <fjoe@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-11-05 01:40:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Max Khon <fjoe@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-11-05 01:40:46 +0000 |
| commit | cd70341924c00916947eff5b62885ae120f9acb7 (patch) | |
| tree | bbd22479a5f12b310d849a1b96c672e9acfe632b /emulators/vmware3 | |
| parent | - Update to 0.8.7 [1]. (diff) | |
Patch for FreeBSD 4.x was updated (now Power On always works as expected).
Point to new patch location.
Document sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed which should be set to 1
in order to run vmware3.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=93118
Diffstat (limited to 'emulators/vmware3')
| -rw-r--r-- | emulators/vmware3/Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | emulators/vmware3/pkg-message | 14 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/emulators/vmware3/Makefile b/emulators/vmware3/Makefile index e5f489e16b47..c0e99b1d6042 100644 --- a/emulators/vmware3/Makefile +++ b/emulators/vmware3/Makefile @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ pre-fetch: .if ${OSVERSION} < 500000 @${ECHO} @${ECHO} "You need an uncommitted kernel patch to run this port:" - @${ECHO} "You can get it at: http://people.freebsd.org/~fjoe/shm-freebsd4-20031003.diff" + @${ECHO} "You can get it at: http://people.freebsd.org/~fjoe/shm-freebsd4-20031105.diff" @${ECHO} .elif ${OSVERSION} < 500113 @${ECHO} diff --git a/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message b/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message index f7f946559497..a1db8b7b1ffe 100644 --- a/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message +++ b/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message @@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ then you'll be ready to start vmware. Don't forget to load the kernel module aio.ko, or options VFS_AIO in the kernel. Otherwise expect problems. +If you have fairly recent 5.x system or running vmware3 +on FreeBSD 4.x, make sure that you have sysctl +kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed set to 1, otherwise you will get + +Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. +Failed to initialize SVGA device. + +errors on "Power On". + +You can add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: +--- cut here --- +kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1 +--- cut here --- + Don't miss the documents installed: vmware(1) ${PREFIX}/share/doc/vmware/* |