Re: OpenBSD under VMWare on Linux

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

This was fixed in -current as of yesterday and a message was specifically
posted to misc@ by Aaron Campbell about it.

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/256/2001/1/0/5069044/

// Brad

brad@comstyle.com
brad@openbsd.org

>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.