Mark Huizer writes:
>Hi there,
>
>I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare
>requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be
>portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly
>that seems to be using Linux specific stuff, brrr..) But anyway: it
>looks feasable.
>
>Is anyone already working on this, or are some people interested in
>helping with this?
>
>As far as I can see, the linux emulation is good enough to run the
>vmware program, "all" you need to do is implement /dev/vmmon and
>/dev/vmnet, given the fact that the code is written really unportable,
>so there is some rewriting to be done. Then with the KLD's
>vmmon,vmnet and linux you should be able to run vmware.
>
Soren mentioned that he might look into it a few weeks ago, but that's the
last thing I remember seeing.
I'm interested in helping with this, though.
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Gary Jennejohn
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