>Number: 164736 >Category: misc >Synopsis: FreeBSD handbook mentions running vmware via linux compat. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 03 13:10:09 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Adam Kirchhoff >Release: 9.0-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD memory.visualtech.com 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #5: Thu Jan 26 22:09:39 EST 2012 r...@memory.visualtech.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEMORY amd64
>Description: This section of the handbook should updated to remove the reference to vmware: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html The linux version of vmware workstation 3 (iirc) was in the ports tree at one point, was removed a while back. No newer version of vmware will work via the compat layer, at least not till someone were to port the vmware kernel modules again. I recently had a discussion with someone who erroneously thought they could get vmware workstation 8 working on FreeBSD because they read this line in the handbook: In a nutshell, the compatibility allows FreeBSD users to run about 90% of all Linux applications without modification. This includes applications such as StarOffice, the Linux version of Netscape®, Adobe® Acrobat®, RealPlayer®, VMware, Oracle®, WordPerfect®, Doom, Quake, and more. It is also reported that in some situations, Linux binaries perform better on FreeBSD than they do under Linux. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Remove VMware from the list. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
