Re: OpenBSD under VMWare on Linux

[David Billett <David.Billett@clearcom.com.au>]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:24:58PM +0100, Saad Kadhi (Tech Accnt) wrote:
> Hi there Jason,
> 
> 
> Jason P. Stanford wrote:
> 
> >   I've been searching around the 'net for any solution to the
> > networking problems I've been having getting OBSD 2.8 working
> > under a vm using VMWare 2.x under Mandrake Linux 7.2.
> > 
> >   When I was installing 2.8 it seemed to find the network just
> > fine, but once booted I keep getting:
> > 
> >   Jan 24 23:33:02 vmbsd0 /bsd: le1: device timeout
> 
> I have successfully installed OpenBSD 2.7 under VMWare with network & 
> all by compiling the kernel without the UVM option (if you do this, 
> you'll need also to comment out an adaptec driver ... I can't recall 
> which one). Well maybe you can try this on 2.8 and report back to the 
> community (I used VMWare 2.0.2-build621 under Linux).
> 

I've got OpenBSD 2.8 networking running under VMWare by compiling 
without UVM. I also had to drop several drivers before it would 
successfully compile.

I'm no coder, but if there's something I can do to try and track it down
I'd be interested.

-- 
Regards,

David Billett