Hi Jerry,
welcome to the mailing list and thanks for giving Genode a try!
including /home/jevans/src/genode/repos/ports/run/netperf_lxip.run
Netperf running on Qemu is not recommended.
make: Leaving directory '/home/jevans/src/genode/build.nova'
and no build outputs whatsoever. Any thoughts on this?
this message is an assertion that we put in to prevent our automated tests to exercise the netperf benchmarks on Qemu (we execute those on real hardware only). However, you can manually override this assertion. Please have a look at 'ports/run/netperf.inc', which is implicitly used by the 'netperf_lxip.run' script you executed. Right at the beginning of the file, it states:
# setting environment variable FORCE_QEMU permits running netperf in qemu
Could you give it a try?
And the VM then locks before the
'NOVA Microhypervisor v7-4d6f04d (x86_64): Dec 2 2016 17:01:35 [gcc 4.9.2]' banner appears.
Unfortunately, I am unable to help out since I am unfamiliar with VMware. Just out of curiosity, have you tried booting any of the other kernels (e.g., hw_x86_64, sel4_x86_32) in VMware?
Cheers Norman