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| author | Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-06-19 18:02:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-06-19 18:02:59 +0000 |
| commit | 4e4f338ce27b4626459b231b0ff62732f98f2721 (patch) | |
| tree | a17d8105ad37779f55174bddb9c00154469e78e9 /emulators/vmware2/files/Hints.FreeBSD | |
| parent | 653381b3db0ffc18e0efa04957d317bae2abf90b (diff) | |
Add a knob to try installing VMware 2.0.1 RC2 for those who are willing to try it out.
Add a piece of advice that users should not run VMware as root to Hints.FreeBSD.
Diffstat (limited to 'emulators/vmware2/files/Hints.FreeBSD')
| -rw-r--r-- | emulators/vmware2/files/Hints.FreeBSD | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/emulators/vmware2/files/Hints.FreeBSD b/emulators/vmware2/files/Hints.FreeBSD index f1528c31697a..a2e4540f5b7f 100644 --- a/emulators/vmware2/files/Hints.FreeBSD +++ b/emulators/vmware2/files/Hints.FreeBSD @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Here is a list of some useful hints on using VMware on FreeBSD. when running a DOS prompt on MS Windows. Hitting Alt+Enter will crash VMware before you can say "Chuck!" +- Running VMware as root is NOT the right way to do it. Edit +/etc/fbtab to obtain the proper permission for the device files that +you are going to access, then run VMware as a normal user. + - Raw disk may not work. Use virtual or plain disk instead. - The vmware-mount.pl utility does not work. If you want to mount |