It seems Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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.
Yup, I have the files here, and have given it a quick look, doesn't look to difficult to do, but I havn't had time yet to get into the matter.. It will probably be awhile before I do have the time though, but if nobody else does it I'll get to it sooner or later... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
