From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 10:00:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90C216A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:00:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ganael.laplanche@martymac.com) Received: from data.galacsys.net (data.galacsys.net [217.24.81.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645A743D5C for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:00:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ganael.laplanche@martymac.com) Received: from martymac.com (webmail.galacsys.net [217.24.81.215]) by data.galacsys.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D371207BC; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:00:39 +0100 (CET) From: "ganael.laplanche" To: Scot Hetzel , Annelise Anderson Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:00:39 +0100 Message-Id: <20051122095802.M55538@martymac.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0511211037g20e19374g8b69d38e9f105cb7@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051121040836.I47999@andrsn.stanford.edu> <790a9fff0511211037g20e19374g8b69d38e9f105cb7@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.01 20030425 X-OriginatingIP: 84.14.106.134 (ganael.laplanche@martymac.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:00:41 -0000 Hi all, ... And it doesn't seem Vmware for FreeBSD is going to be be released soon ! Here is an answer from the technical support : >Hi, > >Do you intend to release a FreeBSD version of VMware ? > >Thank you, > >Ganael. -- At this point there is no plan to release a FreeBSD version of Workstation. This is in part due to Freebsd's quick changes from Release and Stable Thank you, XXX Technical Support Specialist VMware, Inc. ********************** Too bad :( Ganaël LAPLANCHE ganael.laplanche@martymac.com http://www.martymac.com Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Scot Hetzel To: Annelise Anderson Cc: ports@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:37:03 -0600 Subject: Re: VMware > On 11/21/05, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > Vmware 3.3 is in ports, but vmware has advanced to 4.5, 5.0, and > > now 5.5 is in beta testing. All of these run FreeBSD as a guest (I'm > > running 6.0 as a guest on Windows XP). > > > > But VMware 4.5, 5.0, and 5.5 don't run on FreeBSD, which I think > > is unfortunate as it prevents FreeBSD from being used as a test platform > > for other operating systems. While native FreeBSD support would be nice, > > running with linux emulation would be okay, but not even this works. > > > > Wouldn't this be an important priority for making FreeBSD a more > > widely used test platform? > > > > Thanks you for your consideration. > > > > Orlando Bassotto made VMware 4.5.x run on FreeBSD 5.x. But it > required a patch to the FreeBSD kernel to support gettid syscall in > the linux emulator. This syscall is now in FreeBSD 6.x and -CURRENT. > But still requires patching of the FreeBSD 5.x kernel. > > While he does supply a patch for vmmon. He doesn't have a patch > available for vmnet. And the patch for vmnet from the vmware3 port > will not apply to the vmware4+ sources of vmnet. If someone can > create the missing patch, and then create the vmware4 port (restricted > to FreeBSD 6+, and/or FreeBSD 5.x with patch). After this is done > someone will have to port the vmnet and vmmon patches to vmware5 and > 5.5. > > http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html > > Scot > > -- > DISCLAIMER: > No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------- End of Original Message -------