mountmgr.sys not running on OpenBSD - depends on dbus/hal, or a timing issue?

[Ken Thomases]

On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Austin English wrote:

> The main question I have though, is that I can't get winetest to run
> there. When I run ./wine winetest or ./wine winetest-latest.exe,
> winetest begins to load, then bails out, saying mountmgr.sys isn't
> running, likely because my wineprefix is messed up. I'm not sure if
> it's an issue of OpenBSD being broken, the vm being too slow and
> timing out, or the lack of dbus/hal on OpenBSD to prevent mountmgr
> from running. I'm assuming it's either OpenBSD being broken or the vm
> being to slow, since other platforms without hal/dbus (OSX, etc.)
> still report results fine.

There's an alternative implementation for Mac OS X using the Disk Arbitration framework.  See dlls/mountmgr.sys/diskarb.c.  OpenBSD may need its own implementation of the corresponding functionality.

Regards,
Ken