Patch for FreeBSD 4.x was updated (now Power On always works as expected).

Point to new patch location.
Document sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed which should be set to 1
in order to run vmware3.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/emulators/vmware3/Makefile b/emulators/vmware3/Makefile
index e5f489e..c0e99b1 100644
--- a/emulators/vmware3/Makefile
+++ b/emulators/vmware3/Makefile
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ pre-fetch:
 .if ${OSVERSION} < 500000
 	@${ECHO}
 	@${ECHO} "You need an uncommitted kernel patch to run this port:"
-	@${ECHO} "You can get it at: http://people.freebsd.org/~fjoe/shm-freebsd4-20031003.diff"
+	@${ECHO} "You can get it at: http://people.freebsd.org/~fjoe/shm-freebsd4-20031105.diff"
 	@${ECHO}
 .elif ${OSVERSION} < 500113
 	@${ECHO}
diff --git a/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message b/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message
index f7f9465..a1db8b7 100644
--- a/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message
+++ b/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message
@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ then you'll be ready to start vmware.
 Don't forget to load the kernel module aio.ko, or
 options VFS_AIO in the kernel.  Otherwise expect problems.
 
+If you have fairly recent 5.x system or running vmware3
+on FreeBSD 4.x, make sure that you have sysctl
+kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed set to 1, otherwise you will get
+
+Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument.
+Failed to initialize SVGA device.
+
+errors on "Power On".
+
+You can add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:
+--- cut here ---
+kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
+--- cut here ---
+
 Don't miss the documents installed:
 
 	vmware(1) ${PREFIX}/share/doc/vmware/*