vmware3 on freebsd5.4 fails networking

[Gernot Hueber]

Thanks for your response.

At least I found out what was going wrong, there was still
a /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 from a very old vmware installation ...
After removing that one and linking to the current everything works.

Gernot

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 23:57 +0100, Per Hedeland wrote:
> Gernot Hueber <hueber at riic.at> wrote:
> >
> >I can't get vmware3 networking up and running :-(
> >(While installing the port I have tried both, with and without bridging
> >mode)
> 
> Have you installed from a current version of the port? The Makefile has
> been broken for the better part of the year, resulting in a rc script
> that fails to do the needed network setup. Should be fixed in port
> revision 12 on October 14th.
> 
> >vmware starts but I get errors regarding the vmnet
> >
> >1) When config is set to bridging mode
> >
> >"Could not query bridging status on device /dev/vmnet0.  Please update
> >your vmnet driver."
> >
> >VM starts and I can use it (without networkging)
> 
> VMware itself must always be configured for "Host-Only" mode on FreeBSD.
> The choice between really doing that, or bridging via netgraph, is done
> by the rc script based on the config that is created when you build the
> port. I.e. the above will never work.
> 
> >2) When config is set to host-only mode
> >
> >"Could not open /dev/vmnet1: No such device or address
> >Failed to configure ethernet0."
> >
> >VM does not start.
> 
> This might possibly be the result of the broken rc script per above, I
> don't remember the exact symptom when you actually try to start VMware.
> 
> >In both cases vmnet0 and vmnet1 devices are available.
> 
> Hm, you don't need vmnet0 (which VMware wants to use when configured for
> bridging like above), and the rc script won't create it - if you created
> the devices yourself you may have done something wrong...
> 
> >What is going wrong here, I have googled around, no luck yet.
> 
> There is some discussion on the gory details of VMware3 networking on
> FreeBSD in the MultipleInstances.FreeBSD file that comes with the port
> (gets installed in /usr/local/share/doc/vmware) - most of it is probably
> overkill if you just want to run a single VMware instance, but it might
> give some hints.
> 
> --Per Hedeland
> 
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