[okl4-developer] Wombat core mash under VMware Workstation 6

[Subcommander l0r3zz]

On Jan 16, 2008 6:26 PM, Kalamkar, Dhiraj D <dhiraj.d.kalamkar at intel.com>
wrote:

Hi Geoff,



Check if your VMWare config file (.vmx) has following two lines at some
place.



monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE

monitor_control.vt32 = TRUE



Also check if VT is enabled in CMOS setup.

I was facing exactly same problem that you are facing, hope this will solve
your problem.



Regards,
Dhiraj Kalamkar



That worked perfectly!

Also I might add that I picked up the VMware Serial line Gateway program
that lets you connect your virtual serial line from a Workstation VM via a
NT named pipe to localhost:567 so you can telnet to it. You can find it at
the L4Ka site

http://l4ka.org/tools/vmwaregateway.php

So now I convert the c.img disks to c.vmdk images using
qemu-img convert c.img -O vmdk c.vmdk and attach them as an IDE drive to the
VM.

Everything boots just fine

This helps a lot as I can suspend a debug session if I need to powerdown the
laptop or log out and I can come back to it just as I left it.




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> *From:* developer-bounces at okl4.org [mailto:developer-bounces at okl4.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Subcommander l0r3zz
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:14 AM
> *To:* developer at okl4.org
> *Subject:* [okl4-developer] Wombat core mash under VMware Workstation 6
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>
> I know the OK-Labs uses qemu but it would be great if I could create
> VMware runable VMs with the workstation product.
> In any event I have a core mash after start-up in my VM..
>
> Iguana virtual serial driver v1.0
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> kernel access raised user pagefault @ 2ab17ccd, ip=f010931b,
> space=f012e3dc, esp
>  = f0118f2c
> current tcb = e0003c00
> --- "KD# kpf" ---
> --------------------------------- (eip=f0107280, esp=f01100e2) ---
>
> > frame
> fault : f0107290        stack: f01100e2 error code: f01100e2 frame:
> f0118ec8
> eax:       17   ebx: 2ab17ccd
> ecx:        0   edx:       17
> esi: f010931b   edi:        0
> ebp: f012e3dc   efl:     3096 [cPAzSoditr3]
> cs:         8   ss:      e0003c00
> ds:        10   es:        10
> gs:      f0118ec8
>
>
>
> Someone a while back stated that this was due to the VT bit not being set.
> But I do have VT enabled on my Dell 620 laptop (Running XP SP2) and I'm
> still getting this.
> It runs just fine under qemu.
> If anyone knows a soultion they can e-mail me privately as other's may not
> care,
> If I solve it, I will post to the list so that the solution will get into
> the archives.
>
>
> - Geoff
>
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