vmware trouble

[Benjamin Kohler]

Hi Yuriy,
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:25:04 +0300
Yuriy Gerasimov <yura at pth.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> wrote:

> I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1.
> 
> I cannot Power it On. I have just error
> 
> Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument.
> Failed to initialize SVGA device.

I use vmware3 on current. Please check if you have the following settings:

in /etc/sysctl.conf
kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1

and in your Kernelconf:

options         VFS_AIO

cu
benj