The problem may be that you're using the CD version, which saves its 
configuration on floppy. Oliver Maul sent this mailing list message: 
http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/?action=show_msg&actionargs[]=144&actionargs[]=10

He says the fix is "add the line 'floppy.minVirtualTime = 100' to the .vmx 
file"

-klode

> Hi,
>
> after two days I found out that in the scenario m0n0-cd 1.2b6 +
> vmware 4.5.2 + windows xp it is neccesary to add the line
>
> floppy.minVirtualTime = 100
>
> to the .vmx file.

On 5/19/05, Marco Fandel <fandelmarco at yahoo dot de> wrote:
> 
> 
> >> Then I tried Chris's image, the 1.2b7 CD version, no change either...?
> 
> >> Maybe you did some configuration in the (virtual) Bios?
> 
> >All the virtual BIOS settings are included in the VM distribution.
> 
> Hm, yeah I thought so too, but as I wrote, it did not import the BIOS 
> settings, telling me that it
> 
> is not compatible with my VMworkstation (4.5.2 build 8848). Don't know 
> why, didn't have that
> 
> issue before. Therefor I was asking if there are some specific 
> configurations in the BIOS...
> 
> >I think I was upgraded to 5.0 before trying b5 or newer, but I do have a 
> machine with 4.5.2 that
> 
> > I can try. But I ran FreeBSD 5 in 4.0 and 4.5 and never had a single 
> problem with it.
> 
> >-Chris
> 
> Hm, maybe that's the issue with the BIOS...?
> 
> I'm very interested in any result of this... By the way I'm running 
> VMworkstation atop of XPSP1
> 
> And the ESX uses an MSA-1000 SAN, maybe that one causes problems too...?
> 
> Thanx
> Marco
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