Re: Vmware 3.1 and OpenBSD 3.1 as guest VM

["Chris Maxwell (OpenBSD Lists)" <openbsd@themanor.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Hopcraft" <lhopcraft@telus.net>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: Vmware 3.1 and OpenBSD 3.1 as guest VM

> During installation everything went fine.  But upon re-booting after
> installation I was getting "Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3" error.  I've
>
> I can still boot the install from a floppy with the following.
> boot> boot hd0a:/bsd
>
> Is anyone running OpenBSD 3.1 as a guest OS, and if so, how was it
> accomplished?

I have OpenBSD 3.1 running fine under VMWare 3.1.
The best settings I found were to use *cough* FreeBSD *cough* as the guest
OS.  I did run into similar trouble when trying to manually configure FDISK
partitions, rather than letting the installer use the whole disk -
especially if I tried to start the partitions before the 63rd sector.  Also,
make sure that if you are reinstalling, you delete the old virtual disk
image and allow it to start fresh.  The "Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3" error
would not go away until I used a clean vdisk.

good luck
-c-

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Chris Maxwell
cmaxwell@themanor.net