On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:16:29AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mark Huizer wrote: > > > 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. > > WooHoo! Well, I can't celebrate quite yet, but I'll definately be > buying a copy of VMWare if anyone gets this to work (WAY above my > head, so no help from me, sorry). More than likely, many people other > than myself would also buy a copy of VMWare for Linux just to run > under FreeBSD, so maybe you can convince VMWare, Inc. to give you or > whoever else decides to tackle this some monetary compensation? It > would also help to bring us a step closer to a native FreeBSD version > of VMWare, since some (most?) of the work would already be done for > them (the porting of vmmon and vmnet).
We will _definitely_ buy VMWare if we can run it on a FreeBSD host system - I believe that I've told them so in the past. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [...@pavilion.net, j...@uk.freebsd.org, j...@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
